Geoffrey R. Kirkland
Pastor, Christ Fellowship Bible Church
The INFINITY OF GOD means that God has no limits or bounds whatsoever. He is free from any and all limitations. God has no one constraining him. There is no scientific law that binds him. No creature or person or circumstance can limit or hinder God in any way. This essential part of God’s character reminds us of the infinite vastness of the magnitude of God’s splendor. He is totally unlike us. Therefore, the infinity of God consists of His non-communicable attributes (that is: those characteristics of God that we as people cannot emulate; e.g., his omnipresence, his omniscience, his infinity, etc.).
The Bible exclaims that God’s greatness is “unsearchable” (Psalm 145.3). No one can withstand God or resist Him in any way (2 Chronicles 20.6). Marvel at this amazing truth of the psalmist: “Our God is in the heavens and He does whatever He pleases" (Psalm 115.3)! One must be infinite in order to do whatever He pleases!
Solomon prayed and affirmed the infinite largeness and unmeasured glory of God when he said: “even heaven and the highest heavens cannot contain you” (1 Kings 8.27). Some have called this attribute of God’s infinity a “meta-attribute” because it, in a sense, qualifies all the other attributes of God’s blessed character and being. This is a most gloriously positive and wonderful attribute. It highlights the supremacy, preeminence, and incomparable nature of our God’s personhood!
Our minds get lost in the magnitude of sheer exaltedness of the infinity of God. God has internally, in and of Himself, no limitation nor defect in any way or form. Furthermore, He alone has boundless potentiality. He can do all His holy will. He has potential to do anything that He wants. This brings us back to the majestic perfection of His being. What comfort! What hope! What joy! What stability to know and trust and love — and be loved by — this God!
God has no restrictions to His attributes. Furthermore, God lacks nothing and needs nothing. He is complete and not needing anything or anyone to fulfill Him. All the perfections and attributes of God find a direct link to this infinity of God because His love is infinite, His mercy is infinite, His compassions are infinite, His righteousness is infinite, His holy wrath is infinite, and so on.
Everything God made has limits. You and I have limits. Just examine your own physical body. You have limits: physical form, bodily shape, mental limitations. But not so with your God! Ponder Job 11:7 — Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? Even David acknowledged: “I have seen a limit to all perfection; but God’s Word is exceedingly broad” (Psalm 119.96)! Oh how mighty and majestic, how infinite and incomparable, how limitless and unhindered is your God.
Because this is true, why worry? Why fear? Why get caught up in the trivial sins and temptations and worldlinesses of today? Transfix your heart on the deep and sturdy infinity of God. Be shocked and amazed that this mighty and limitless God of all the universe who could — and should! — crush me and you because of our vile sin and evil rebellion. Yet He has, in unspeakable and infinite grace poured out the riches of His love upon us to save us from infinite wrath! What an infinite cost! What an infinite Savior! What an infinite love! What infinite reasons we have to bless this God! Do so today! Praise and consider your God for His infinity.
