July 2. How well do you know God? Behold, God is great, and we know Him not. The number of His years

is unsearchable. Job 36, 26. It is impossible to know God too well. He is the most important person

who exists, and this is because He made all others. And any importance they have is owing to Him.

Any strength or intelligence or skill or beauty that other beings have comes from Him.

On every scale of excellence, He is infinitely greater than the best person you ever knew or ever

heard of. Being infinite, He is inexhaustibly interesting. It is impossible therefore

that God be boring. His continual demonstration of the most intelligent and interesting actions

is volcanic, as the source of every good pleasure. He Himself pleases fully and finally.

If that's not how we experience Him, we are either dead or blind or sleepwalking.

It is therefore astonishing how little effort in this world is put into knowing God.

It is as though the President of the United States came to live with you for a month,

and you only said hello in passing every day or so, or as if you were flown at the speed of light

for a couple of hours around the sun and the solar system, and instead of looking out the window,

you played a computer game. Or as if you were invited to watch the best actors, singers,

athletes, inventors, and scholars perform their best. But you declined to go so that you could watch

the TV season's final soap. Let us pray together that our infinitely great God would incline our hearts

and open our eyes to see Him as fully as we can and seek to know Him more.