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Immortal, invisible, God only wise!

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Praise the one true and living God with me today!

One of my favorite hymns is Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise, with lyrics by Walter Chalmers Smith, and music (a Welsh melody) from John Roberts.

Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
In light inaccessible hid from our eyes,
Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,
Almighty, victorious, Thy great name we praise.

Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,
Nor wanting, nor wasting, Thou rulest in might;
Thy justice like mountains high soaring above
Thy clouds which are fountains of goodness and love.

To all, life Thou givest, to both great and small;
In all life Thou livest, the true life of all;
We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
And wither and perish, but naught changeth Thee.

Thou reignest in glory; Thou dwellest in light;
Thine angels adore Thee, all veiling their sight;
All laud we would render: O help us to see
‘Tis only the splendor of light hideth Thee.

No thinking, no real love for God.

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It may be obvious to many of us, but here is a wonderful insight from Piper’s book THINK, The Life of the Mind and the Love of God (Crossway, 2010, page 90; emphasis added) —

“The main reason that thinking and loving are connected is that we cannot love God without knowing God; and the way we know God is by the Spirit-enabled use of our minds. So to ‘love God with all your mind’ means engaging all your powers of thought to know God as fully as possible in order to treasure Him for all He is worth.

“God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point calling it love FOR God. There may be some vague attraction in our heart or some unfocused gratitude in our soul, but if they do not arise from knowing God, there are not love for God.”