Deuteronomy 3:24

"Handfuls of Purpose"

For All Gleaners

"Thou hast begun to skew thy servant thy greatness." Deu 3:24

This is what is always happening.

The broadest revelation is but a beginning of the disclosure of divine riches. Even if there be no more seed given, the possibilities of growth and development are infinite. At the last we shall feel that we have but begun to see the greatness of God. This is the glory of the Bible: no man can read it through with the feeling that he has exhausted its whole meaning. The Bible grows by being read. Without doing any violence to words or to historical forms it is felt that again and again new meanings surprise the soul like unexpected light. The same rule holds good with regard to providence, or the daily ministry of life. There comes a day in every man's history when he sees the beginning of the greatness of God in the outlining and direction of his own life. Looking back to his fancy, his weakness, his poverty, his friendlessness it may be, he is surprised to find how out of the very dust of the earth God has made a man. It is a singular testimony but universal in the Christian Church that God is never regarded as a dwindling quantity or as a contracting revelation; he is always represented as surprising students, believers, worshippers, with new resources. He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. When man has overtaken God he will himself be God. It is of the very essence of God that he should be unsearchable and his wisdom past finding out. This should be an encouragement to us in our spiritual education. Progress should be the law and the motto of every process of spiritual inquiry. There is always some unattained height, some unmeasured orb, some un-traversed ocean. "I count not myself to have apprehended." Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. All human education is but a series of beginnings. Finality in religious progress is impossible, and where it is supposed to have been attained the supposition risks the destiny of the soul.