The Most Excellent Study for Expanding the Soul by Charles Spurgeon

The proper study of God's elect is God. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.

There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity, so deep that our pride is drowned in its infinity. other subjects we can compass and grapple with. In them we feel a kind of self-contentment, and go our way with the thought, Behold, I am wise. But when we come to this master science, finding that our plumb line cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought that vain man would be wise. but he is like a wild donkey's colt, and with the solemn exclamation, I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind than thoughts of God. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing will so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity.

While humbling and expanding, this subject is eminently consolatory. Oh, there is in contemplating Christ a balm for every wound. In musing on the Father there is a quietus for every grief. In the influence of the Holy Spirit there is a balsam for every sore. Would you lose your sorrows? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead's deepest sea. Be lost in His immensity, and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated.

I know nothing which can
So comfort the soul,
So calm the swelling billows
Of grief and sorrow,
So speak peace to the winds of trial,
As a devout musing
Upon the subject of the Godhead.