sign of growth — a loftier idea of God — by C.H. Spurgeon

"But as for me, I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more." Psalm 71:14

“It should never be forgotten that every Christian as he grows in grace should have a loftier idea of God. Our highest conception of God falls infinitely short of his glory, but an advanced Christian enjoys a far clearer view of what God is than he had at the first. Now, the greatness of God is ever a claim for praise. “Great is the Lord, and” — what follows? — ”greatly to be praised” (Psalm 96:4). If, then, God is greater to me than he was, let my praise be greater. If I think of him now more tenderly as my Father — if I have a clearer view of him in the terror of his justice — if I have a clearer view of the splendors of his wisdom by which he devised the atonement — if I have larger thoughts of his eternal, immutable love — let every advance in knowledge constrain me to say: “I will yet praise thee more and more.” I heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye sees thee: therefore while I abhor myself in dust and ashes (Job 42:5,6), my praise shall rise yet more loftily; up to thy throne shall my song ascend. I did but see as it were the skirts of thy garment, but thou hast hidden me in the cleft of the rock Christ Jesus, and made thy glory pass before me, and now will I praise thee even as the seraphs do, and vie with those before the throne in magnifying thy name.”

C.H. Spurgeon, More and more

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