The ads that blanket your world
beckon you to trivial things.
Here is the great, awesome,
and only worthy pursuit.
In my previous post in this series, we saw that knowing God is the ultimate experience because he is good, perfect, and personal. In this post we see that…
Knowing God is the ultimate experience because he is infinitely superior to us in every imaginable way.
I like to experience people who are better than me. (That’s not hard to find.)
Of course, every person we meet is superior to us in many ways, but we don’t always have occasion to experience it. But when I do, something good comes into my life.
One man in our church is an outstanding cook, with a specialty in making desserts. For many special events he has made gourmet cheesecakes that are the best I have ever tasted. At our last Thanksgiving meal he made a pumpkin cheesecake with homemade whip cream.
He is a blessing to me and everyone in the church for who he is, and he is a blessing to us in this particular way of being a superior dessert chef. I enjoy many things about him, including his superior ability in this area.
People with superior knowledge, ability, experience, character, faith and so on bring more to us than we have. They bring what we need or want, but lack.
God is superior to us.
He is infinitely superior.
He is superior in every imaginable way.
As a result, he brings unlimited benefit to us in every imaginable way.
Divine Superiority
Being around God is like being an amateur violinist and spending a year getting personal daily training from the greatest violinist who ever lived.
Only that great violinist is not only better than anyone ever, not only twice as good or thrice as good or ten times better. This great violinist is not just a hundred times more skilled or a thousand or a million times more skilled than any violist ever. He is literally infinitely more skilled.
That means there is no limit to how superior he is to any other violinist.
That is what God’s superiority to us is. No exaggeration. He has unlimited, perfect virtue and ability.
He created us and our ability. We have no ability or virtue on our own. Literally zero.
So for a human to be around God is for someone who has zero to be around someone who has infinite supply.
Divine omnicompetence
Not only is God infinitely good at what he is good at, he is good at everything. Everything. There is nothing God cannot do, and do infinitely well.
He doesn’t do anything less than perfect, infinitely excellent, and wonderfully superior.
God is superior in knowledge and wisdom. Love and kindness. Joy and peace. Power and energy. Creativity and imagination. Goodness and virtue. Authority and glory. Righteousness and purity.
Not only is good superior to us in every way, he has ways to be superior that we don’t. It’s as though we own three musical instruments, and he owns dozens of instruments. He plays instruments we don’t have. And plays them perfectly.
God is the ultimate. As a result, he is the most interesting being in the universe. And will always be so.
We will never exhaust the pleasures of knowing his superiority.
Divine Generosity
I like to experience God because he is generous with what he has. He likes to give. He likes to share his superiority.
Another word that describes God’s superiority is glory. God is glorious and he delights to show and share his glory.
Therefore, knowing God is the ultimate experience, the ultimate obsession.
We will look next Monday at more reasons why knowing God is the ultimate experience.
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