Another relevant thought from Thomas Brooks, as recorded by Charles Spurgeon:
By nature we are as full of hard thoughts of God as hell is full of sin; and where the heart is not mightily overawed by the Spirit of God, and overpowered by grace of God, there all manner of dark and dismal apprehensions of him abound; for Satan knows very well that our corrupt natures are made up of sad and evil thoughts of God, and therefore he uses al his power and craft to stir us up to sin against him. That Christian is a very great stranger to his own heart who is not able to say from experience, that it is one of the highest and hardest works in this world to keep up good and gracious thoughts of God in a suffering condition, or under dark and dismal dispensations.
When we consider that sin has slain our Lord Jesus Christ, O how should the thought provoke our hearts to be revenged on sin, for having murdered the Lord of glory, and done more mischief than all the devils in hell could have done.
All the riches of Christ are unsearchable riches. A saint, with all the light that he has from the Spirit of Christ, is not able to search to the bottom of these treasures; nay, suppose that all the perfections of angels and saints in a glorified estate should meet in one noble breast, yet all those perfections could not enable that glorious creature to fathom the depths of Christ’s unsearchable riches. And when believers come to heaven, when they shall see God face to face, shall know as they are known, and shall be filled with the fullness of God, even then they will sweetly sing this song: Oh, the height, the depth, the length, the breadth of the unsearchable riches of our Lord Jesus Christ!
