If God is infinite in all of His Being and ways, then He is infinite in all of His attributes. The meaning for this is enormous. Man wants to think that he has something nailed down and perhaps under his control if he has something defined and perhaps figured out. But this (infinity of God) teaches man that all of God’s attributes are beyond his comprehension so that the glory of God is far more than man can grasp with his mind.
God’s infinity in reference to time is His eternity. His infinity in reference to space is His omnipresence. His infinity in reference to His power or ability to act is His omnipotence. His infinity in reference to knowledge or the extent of His knowledge is His omniscience. All of these attributes show His infinity and yet His infinity shows the extent of those attributes. In reference to His moral or communicable attributes, God is unlimited in those too. This means that every moral or communicable attribute is present in God in an absolute and unlimited degree as well.
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us” (Eph 3:20). This verse shows some of the practical aspects for man of God’s infinity. No matter what man can ask of God and think about God, He can do abundantly beyond what man can ask or think. How absurd for man to think that he can ask God something that He cannot do. How absurd it is for man to think that he can even ask something in prayer that is even hard for God. The issue of prayer is to worship God and to be conformed to His will so that in prayer man asks according to that which glorifies God and is in line with what God is doing. But man should never think for a moment that his prayers are putting God to the test in terms of what God can and cannot do.
“‘Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You (Jer 32:17). “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?” (Jer 32:27). Here is the God that man is to worship and be amazed at. Nothing, simply nothing is too difficult for God to do. The infinity of God should bolster the faith of man in God since God can do all He wants to do. “But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases” (Psa 115:3). What a God of majesty and glory when nothing and no one can prevent Him from doing what He pleases! It will take eternity to even begin to make a scratch on the understanding of a God like this. If God wants to do something, then He is infinite in power and ability to do as He pleases. If God desires to be somewhere, then His infinity in presence means that He is there at all times. If God wants to know something, then He is infinite in knowledge and knows all things. Who or what can hinder a God like this?
When God desires to set His love on a molecule sized being (in relation to the universe) on earth called man, who are what will stop Him? If God desires to show grace to a sinner, what amount of sin will stop the God who is infinite in grace? Grace can cover more sin than man can even imagine. When we think of the verses that speak of God showing mercy to whom He will show mercy (Exodus 34; Romans 9), do we think that these texts just mean that God only has to show mercy on those He wishes to? No, this also shows that if He wants to show mercy on certain people He can and will show mercy on those people if He pleases. Who will stop Him from showing mercy to the Gentiles? Who will stop Him from showing mercy on the worst of sinners? No one can, not even the worst of sinners can thwart God.
When Scripture speaks of God’s holiness in terms of His being “holy, holy, holy,” can we imagine that as being anything less than an infinite holiness? If God is infinite in reference to His being, then He must be infinitely holy or He would not be holy in all of His being. No matter the degree that we think God’s blazing holiness reaches, it is far beyond that. No matter how great we see the beauty of His holiness, He is far more beautiful than man can imagine. “One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD And to meditate in His temple” (Psa 27:4). We can think of this as on earth or that which will be fulfilled in heaven. Man will never have to worry about this great desire of just beholding the beauty of the LORD coming to an end. There is an infinite beauty to behold. Finite man will be able to do this for his whole life on earth and then for all eternity. Not only will he be able to do this, but there will be no end to the glory of this beauty because of the infinite beauty of God.
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