no joke

I'm slowly pluggin' away at The Divine Conspiracy. It's extremely good...and it so hurts my brain sometimes. Deep, deep stuff. And, unlike Provocations, the type is small and squished together.The chapters aren't short. And you do have to semi-grasp one paragraph before you can comprehend the next. So I'm chewing, chewing, chewing.

Being an avid admirer of the 'bigness' of our God, I wanted to share this paragraph, which is actually a quote from Adam Clarke...whoever he is.

God is

the eternal, independent, and self-existing Being;

the Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself, without foreign motive or influence;

He who is absolute in dominion;

the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences;

infinitely perfect;

and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that He has made;

illimitable in His immensity, inconceivable in His mode of existence, and indescribable in His essence;

known fully only by Himself, because an infinite mind can only be fully comprehended by itself.

In a word, a Being who, from His infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived, and from His infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, and right, and kind.

Then Willard (author) makes this statement...
"It would be surprising if you found this easy reading. However it is a lot like Shakespeare - not just old, but incredibly rich."

Huh, no joke.