Someone has described God in these words: "God is over all things, under all things, outside all things, within but not enclosed, without but not excluded, above but not raised up, below but not depressed, wholly above presiding, wholly beneath sustained, wholly without embracing and wholly within filling."
Another has exclaimed at the contemplation of God's majesty, "All eloquence is dumb." God is always greater than anything that can be said about Him.
No language is worthy of Him. He is more sublime than all sublimity; loftier than all loftiness; profounder than all profundity; more splendid than all splendor; greater than all majesty; more merciful than all mercy; more just than all justice.
Isaiah recorded the Word of the Lord, "Lift up your eyes on high and behold who has created these things that bringeth out their host by number. He calleth them all by name, by the greatness of his might so that he is strong in power, not one faileth" (Isaiah 40:26). Isaiah, inspired by the Holy Spirit described the stars, the galaxies, the sun, the moons, the spaces above as sheep upon the blue-green pastures of the night and God as the Shepherd.
If we cannot grasp it, at least we can try to imagine the Almighty God whom Isaiah saw moving across the mighty vastness of the spaces between the stars and the galaxies, leading the heavenly flock of shining sheep, calling them all by name and keeping them in place by the greatness of His power.
Isaiah heard the seruphim crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy." Here is the one thing that becomes any of us, that is to cover our face and to kneel in adoring wonder. I shall try to break down this word holy, at least a little, and as I respectfully stand on the shore, point at least to the vast ocean of truth that it contains. The word holy is attributed to the Lord of Hosts, but it is more than an adjective which describes God, more than an attribute of God. It is an ecstatic ascription of glory to the Triune God. Among other things it means moral purity.
The man God uses is a man of vision. The first vision any man must have is the vision of God, not a vision of the field or the need, or the lost. If we see the lost before we see this Holy God, the gospel we take to them will be an inferior kind of gospel. But we must see God first and be overcome with the vision of His moral purity, His absolute moral purity - rightness, cleanness, faultlessness, perfection - which tends to give us a feeling of absolute profaneness.
