The infinitude of God.

I want to tell you about a book I've been reading that is blowing up my mind. A. W. Tozer's The Knowledge of the Holy is awesome! I would insist it as a must read for anyone who has a pulse. First off, I didn't even know that "infinitude" was a word. I'm still slightly in shock that it is, playing with it in my mouth to train my tongue to pronounce it correctly. The vocabulary expansion alone is reason enough to read this book. I Recently I read chapter 8, titled "The Infinitude of God". I'll just share with you what I journaled right after reading.

Wow! This is really good! Tozer talks about how God is limitless, only He is. He is without measure, exalting our vision of Him because He alone is uncontainable by our human speech. Language cannot define Him, measure Him, describe Him completely. Our minds cannot fully conceive of all of who He is. To attempt to fully define and conceptualize Him is to create a god of much less significance and power.
Tozer also brings in our hope in Christ, and how it is His very infinitude, that gives us hope. How had I become so blind to this hope in Christ, which is the very reason and purpose of His coming?

Here is an excerpt from page 47: " God's gifts in nature have their limitations. They are finite because they have been created, but the gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus is as limitless as God. The christian man possesses God's own life and shares His infinitude with Him. In God there is life enough for all and time enough to enjoy it. Whatever is possessed of natural life runs through it's cycle from birth to death and ceases to be, but the life of God returns upon itself and ceases never. and this is life eternal: to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent.
The mercy of God is infinite too, and the man who has felt the grinding pain of inward guilt knows that this is more than academic. "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind. However sin may abound it still has it's limits, for it is product of finite minds and hearts; but God's "much more" introduces us to infinitude. Against our deep creature-sickness stands God's infinite ability to cure.
The christian witness through the centuries has been that "God so loved the world..."; it remains for us to see that love in the light of God's infinitude. His love is measureless. It is more" it is boundless. It has no bounds because it is not a thing but a facet of the essential nature of God. His love is something He is, and because He is infinite that love can enfold the whole created world in itself and have room for ten thousand times ten thousand worlds beside."

This is awesome. I've wondered how His love could be so expansive to even envelope me in my sin; which seems so large to me. But to understand that His love is boundless because He is boundless, and love is who He is, is very refreshing. He cannot separate Himself from Himself! He doesn't act like He wants to, He is acting, doing, interacting with us out of who He is, not who He is trying to be. Could this be why He states in his word that mercy triumphs over judgement in James 2:13? He judges because it is right and good for Him to do so, but He is merciful. The mercy outlast the judgement.

This also makes me think of Audra Lynn's album Vow. At one point, spoken over music is a phrase that echos in my mind often: "Justice carries mercy, and mercy acts in love. Love defines the means, by which the justice does."

Daddy, I thank You and praise you for Your identity, who You are. You are holy, kind, truthful and loving because of who You are. You are not putting on an act. You never change. You will always be this way. You are always good. You always and only do what is right. Holy Spirit help me to know this every moment of every day. Amen.