How well do you know God
How well do you know God by John Piper
(from his Solid
Joys blog published by Desiring God - the blog can be found here How well do you know God - Solid Joys)
“Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the
number of his years is unsearchable.” (Job 36:26)
It is impossible to know God too well.
He is the most important person who exists. And
this is because he made all others, and any importance they have is owing to
him.
Any strength or intelligence or skill or beauty
that other beings have comes from him. On every scale of excellence, he is
infinitely greater than the best person you ever knew or ever heard of.
Being infinite, he is inexhaustibly interesting. It
is impossible, therefore, that God be boring. His continual demonstration of
the most intelligent and interesting actions is volcanic.
As the source of every good pleasure, he himself
pleases fully and finally. If that’s not how we experience him, we are either
dead, or blind, or sleepwalking.
It is therefore astonishing how little effort in
this world is put into knowing God.
It’s as though the President of the United States
came to live with you for a month, and you only said hello in passing every day
or so. Or as if you were flown at the speed of light for a couple of hours
around the sun and the solar system, and instead of looking out the window, you
played a computer game. Or as if you were invited to watch the best actors,
singers, athletes, inventors, and scholars perform their best, but you declined
to go, so you could watch the TV season’s final soap.
Let us pray together that our infinitely great God
would incline our hearts, and open our eyes to see him as fully as we can and
seek to know him more.
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