“Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?” — Job 38:16

Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone. If this be so in the things which are seen and temporal, I may rest assured that it is even more so in matters spiritual and eternal. Why, then, have I been torturing my brain with speculations as to destiny and will, fixed fate, and human responsibility? These deep and dark truths I am no more able to comprehend than to find out the depth which coucheth beneath, from which old ocean draws her watery stores. Why am I so curious to know…

the reason of my Lord’s providences, the motive of His actions, the designof His visitations? Shall I ever be able to clasp the sun in my fist, and holdthe universe in my palm? yet these are as a drop of a bucket comparedwith the Lord my God. Let me not strive to understand the infinite, butspend my strength in love. What I cannot gain by intellect I can possess
by affection, and let that suffice me. I cannot penetrate the heart of the sea,but I can enjoy the healthful breezes which sweep over its bosom, and Ican sail over its blue waves with propitious winds. If I could enter thesprings of the sea, the feat would serve no useful purpose either to myselfor to others, it would not save the sinking bark, or give back the drownedmariner to his weeping wife and children; neither would my solving deepmysteries avail me a single whit, for the least love to God, and the simplestact of obedience to Him, are better than the profoundest knowledge. MyLord, I leave the infinite to Thee, and pray Thee to put far from me such alove for the tree of knowledge as might keep me from the tree of life.

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