The teaching of God’s infinity should terrify the unbeliever when he considers that the degree of God’s holiness is far beyond what he can imagine. Men desire God to be like themselves and so they try to twist Scripture and theology to fulfill that desire (Psa 50:21; Acts 17:29). When confronted with the infinite holiness of God, men may bow in sheer self-condemnation before His blazing glory as Isaiah did (Isa 6) or they will try to twist the information to feel more comfortable. The infinity of God makes His glorious holiness more than the eyes and hearts of men can bear. However, for the believer this is of great comfort. The infinity of God’s holiness means that God is set apart to do all for His own glory and so He cannot change and He cannot deny Himself. The believer loves the infinity of God’s holiness and its beauty and so wants more and more of it. It is a delight to think of growing in the knowledge and delight of this holiness for all eternity.
The infinity of God’s power should move the unbeliever to a great fear. The power of God as infinite knows no limits or bounds that any other being put on Him. “Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You” (Psa 90:11)? No human can understand the depths of an infinite power. No human can do anything to escape the infinite power of God. Man is a bit like a very small bug trying to stop an entire ocean of water moving toward him. The water cannot be stopped and all of man’s efforts at this are simply useless and he will be overwhelmed. Such is man in the sight and hand of God. However, for the believer this is a great comfort. God can do whatever it takes to bring relief to the believer. Nothing happens to the believer that God has not allowed to happen.
“Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You” (Psa 90:11)? Using the same verse, we can also see the infinity of the fury and anger of God. The wrath that God displays on earth and in hell is beyond what the mind can conceive. There will be no end to an infinite wrath and there is no limit to what an infinite wrath can do. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God who is infinite in His anger and fury. But this also gives comfort to the believer who looks upon the infinite wrath of God and knows that Christ has suffered and died as a propitiatory sacrifice in order to remove that wrath. So the believer is excited to praise and adoration as s/he looks upon the wrath of God because it opens up new venues to see the grace of God on display.
As the unbeliever should tremble knowing that nothing can protect him from God, so the believer gains comfort by knowing that nothing can keep God from protecting His people if He desires. God can do as He wills on earth and heaven and no one can limit or thwart Him since God is not limited in any way but Himself. While the unbeliever has no hope for anything but wrath in his state of unbelief, the believer can look to the infinity of God in terms of His love as comfort. “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. 20 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 3:16-20).
According the text above, man may know (intimately) the love of Christ which is beyond knowledge. This is simply the infinity of God expressed in love and yet should be of great comfort to the believer that there is no end to this vast love of God. For eternity there will be boundless oceans of love for streaming and surging to and through all who are in Christ. Out of that love there is this great and infinite God who can not only do all that man can ask or think, but can do “far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think.” God is not limited by what man can think or pray. God is not limited by the mind or heart of man. Man should humble himself before this great majesty of heaven and realize that truly God is infinite and so man should be in the dust before His infinite majesty. It is only fitting.
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