God asked Job, "Have you entered into the springs of the sea?" (38:16) Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Why then torture your brain with speculations as to destiny and will, fixed fate, and human responsibility? Why am I so curious to know the reason of my Lord's providences, the motive of His actions, the design of His visitations? Shall I ever be able to clasp the sun in my fist, and hold the universe in my palm? Let me not strive to understand the infinite, but spend my strength in love.
Solving deep mysteries will [not] avail me a single whit. The least love to God and the simplest act of obedience to Him are better than the profoundest knowledge.
My Lord, I leave the infinite to Thee, and pray Thee to put far from me such a love for the tree of knowledge as might keep me from the tree of life. C.H. Spurgeon, September 5th, Evening
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