God

God Almighty, from his very essence and nature, must be an Omniscient God. Strike out the thought that he sees me, and you extinguish Deity by a single stroke. There were no God if that God had no eyes, for a blind God were no God at all.

The proper study of God’s elect is God; the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead.

God is a master-mind; he arranged everything in his gigantic intellect long before he did it; and, once having settled it, he never alters.

A man who has an honest conscience and a sane mind, when he lifts his eyes up yonder to read the stars, will see those stars spell out in golden letters this word — God; and when he looks below upon the waves, if his ears are honestly opened, he will hear each wave proclaiming, God.

There is no attribute of God more comforting to his children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty.

There was a time when all that we now behold of Gfod’s great universe was yet unborn, slumbering within the mind of God, as yet uncreate and non-existent; yet there was God, and he was “over all blessed for ever;” though no seraphs hymned his praises, though no strong-winged cherubs flashed like lightning to do his high behests, though he was without a retinue, yet he sat as a king on his throne, the mighty God, for ever to be worshipped.

Take any one attribute of God, and I will write semper idem on it (always the same). Take any one thing you can say of God now, and it may be said not only in the dark past, but in the bright future it shall always remain the same: “I am Jehovah, I change not.”

Oh! what a blessing that we have our household God as well as the Bomans! Our God is a household God. He comes to live with his people; he loves the tents of Jacob.

Whatever the attributes of God were of old, that they are now; and of each of them we may sing,” As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen.*

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On the brow of the Eternal there is ne’er a furrow; his hair is unwhitened by age; his arm is unpalsied by weakness; his heart does not change in its affections; his will does not vary in its purpose; he is the Immutable Jehovah, standing fast and for ever.

Infinity has written on its very brow the word “immutability.”

A sinner can call God God, but he must always put in an adjective, and speak of God as an angry God, an incensed God, or an offended God. But the Christian can say, “My God,” without putting in any adjective except it be a sweet one wherewithal to extol him; for now we who were sometime afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Not all the music blown from sweet instruments, or drawn from living strings, could ever give such melody as this sweet promise, “I will be their God.” Oh! here is a very sea of bliss, a very ocean of delight; come, bathe thy spirit in it; thou may’st swim, ay, to eternity, and never find a shore; thou may’st dive to the very infinite and never find the bottom.

Though God is the ruler of all men, yet his rule is special towards his children. While he gives the world a law upon stone, he gives to his child a law in his heart.

Any other man’s voice could not pardon sin; none but the voice of the monarch can speak pardon to the subject; and God’s is a majestic voice, for he has only to speak, and our pardon is at once signed, sealed, and ratified.

Could I command Etna with its flames and smoke to cease its ebullitions, and should it at once be still, I had not worked a deed so mighty as when God speaks to a boiling spirit sending forth fire and smoke, and bids it stay. The everlasting God exhibits more power in turning a sinner from the error of his ways, than in the creation of a world or the sustentation of an universe.

Do not serve God because you dare not do other than serve him, because you are afraid not to serve him; do not do it from fear; do not work like a negro slave under his master’s lash; but serve him, your Master, from pure delight, because he is your Ishi, your husband.

God is everywhere: he is a God who filleth immensity: the heavens are not wide enough for him; he graspeth the sun with one hand and the moon with the other; he stretcheth himself through the unnavigated ether; where the wing of seraph hath never been flapped, there is God; and where the solemnity of silence has never been broken by the song of cherub, there is God.

From the crown of your head to the sole of your foot, God is examining you now; his scalpel is in your heart, his lancet in your breast; he is searching your heart and trying your reins; he knows you behind and before.

Shut me out from the animate creation, and put me on the barren rock, where moss itself cannot find a footing; and I shall there discern my God bearing up the pillars of the universe, and sustaining that bare rock as a part of the colossal foundation whereon he hath built the world.

Conceive space, and God and space are equal. He doth not look upon me from a distance: but he is here, close by my side, and not by me only, but in me; within this heart; where these lungs beat; or where my blood rushes through my veins; or where this pulse is beating, like a muffled drum, my march to death.

This world is nothing but a huge glass bee-hive. God looks down on you, and he sees you all. You go into your little cells in the streets of this huge city; you go to your business, your pleasure, your devotions, and your sins; but remember, wherever you go, you are like the bees under a great glass shade, you can never get away from God’s observation.

It were difficult in the extreme to imagine a divinity who could not behold the actions of the works of his hands. The word which the Greek applied to God implied that he was a God who could see. They called him Ocos (Theos); and they derived that word, if I read rightly, from the root fourtiat (theisthai), to see, because they regarded God as being the all-seeing one, whose eye took in the whole universe at a glance, and whose knowledge extended far beyond that of mortals.

When God works his wonders he always conceals himself. Even the motion of his feet causes clouds to arise; and if these “clouds are but the dust of his feet,” how deep must be that dense darkness which veils the brow of the Eternal!

God has a window in every man’s heart, through which he looks. He can read every word that is in your breast: he knows every thought, every imagination, every conception.

In the great, and in the little, there is God — God in everything, working all things according to the counsel of his own will. God hath bounded the sea with a barrier of sand; and if the sea mount up wave after wave, yet it shall not exceed its allotted channel. Everything is of God; and unto him who guideth the stars and wingeth sparrows, who ruleth planets and yet moveth atoms, who speaks thunders and yet whispers zephyrs, unto him be glory.