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Morning and Evening

September 5, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?" — Job 38:16 · KJV

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 belongs to God alone. If this is so in things seen and temporal, I may be sure it is even more so in things spiritual and eternal. Why, then, have I been torturing my brain with speculations about destiny and will, fixed fate and human responsibility? These deep and dark truths I can no more comprehend than find out the depth that lies 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 design of His visitations? Shall I ever be able to grasp the sun in my fist and hold the universe in my palm? Yet these are but a drop in a bucket compared with the Lord my God. Let me not strive to understand the infinite, but spend my strength in love. What I cannot gain by intellect I can possess by affection, and let that suffice me. I cannot enter the heart of the sea, but I can enjoy the healthful breezes that sweep over its surface, and sail over its blue waves with favoring winds. If I could enter the springs of the sea, the feat would serve no useful purpose to myself or others; it would not save the sinking ship, nor give back the drowned sailor to his weeping wife and children. Neither would the solving of deep mysteries profit me one whit, for the least love to God, and the simplest act of obedience to Him, are better than the profoundest knowledge. My Lord, I leave the infinite to You, and pray You to put far from me such a love for the tree of knowledge as would keep me from the tree of life.