THE SOLITARINESS OF GOD (Arthur Pink) In the beginning God (Gen 1:1). There was a time, if time it could be called, when God, in the unity of His nature (though subsisting equally in three divine persons), dwelt all alone. In the beginning God. There was no heaven, where His glory is now particularly manifested. There was no earth to engage His attention. There were no angels to hymn His praises; no universe to be upheld by the word of His power. There was nothing, no one, but God; and that, not for a day, a year, or an age, but from everlasting. During eternity past, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing. Had a universe, had angels, had human beings been necessary to Him in any way, they also had been called into existence from all eternity. The creating of them when He did, added nothing to God essentially. He changes not (Mal 3:6), therefore His essential glory can be neither augmented nor diminished. God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure; for He works all things after the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11). ________________________________________ Such an One is to be revered, worshiped, adored. He is solitary in His majesty, unique in His excellency, peerless in His perfections. He sustains all, but is Himself independent of all. He gives to all, but is enriched by none. How vastly different is the God of Scripture from the God of the average pulpit! ________________________________________ The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known. Nor is God known by the intellect. God is Spirit (John 4:24), and therefore can only be known spiritually. But fallen man is not spiritual; he is carnal. He is dead to all that is spiritual. Unless he is born again, supernaturally brought from death unto life, miraculously translated out of darkness into light, he cannot even see the things of God (John 3:3), still less apprehend them (1 Cor 2:14). The Holy Spirit has to shine in our hearts (not intellects) in order to give us the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor 4:6). And even that spiritual knowledge is but fragmentary. The regenerated soul has to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus (2 Peter 3:18). [to read this writing in full, click below] gracegems.org/Pink/attributes_of_god1.htm
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