Today’s Spurgeon reading came at a perfect time as I’ve found myself dwelling, perhaps a bit too much, on certain mysteries lately.

From September 5: (This is from the edited modern language version. If you are a traditionalist, replace all You’s with Thee’s and call it good).

Some things in nature remain a mystery even to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has boundaries beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone.

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Why am I so curious to know the reason for my Lord’s providences, the motive of His actions, the design of His visitations? Will I ever be able to clasp the sun in my fist or hold the universe in my palm? Yet these are as a drop in a bucket compared with the Lord my God.

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Do not let me strive to understand the infinite, but spend my strength in love. What I cannot gain by intellect I can possess by affection, and that should be enough for me.

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The simplest act of obedience to Him is better than the profoundest knowledge. My Lord, I leave the infinite to You and ask You to put far from me a love for the tree of knowledge that would keep me from the tree of life.

Read the whole thing here.

It made me think of a J.I. Packer quote that I always to try keep in mind when I’m learnin’ about theology and theologizin’.

As I often tell my students, theology is for doxology and devotion—that is, the praise of God and the practice of godliness. Theology is at its healthiest when it is consciously under the eye of the God of whom it speaks, and when it is singing to his glory.