Beauty in Insanity

After reading, discussing, and contemplating over the thoughts of various medieval authors, I feel as if my head were going to explode. So many thoughts of God and His goodness consume my mind that I can no longer think straight. The only consistent thought I have blows my mind every time I think of it - God is insane; I’m sure of it! From my perspective, everything He does for me and everything He is just makes no sense. The idea that nothing can add or subtract from His glory – that He already possesses all honor to the highest degree – boggles my thoughts beyond repair. God had absolutely no reason to create man at all. He already held all the glory He could ever possess and was happy (if that’s the right word) to the fullest degree. Yet, He still decided to create man anyways! If not to assuage a need of His own or to intensify His glory, His creation of man was not an act to help Himself at all. Rather, this creation of man was a gift to man, for our own sake… that we might recognize Him for it, share in His overwhelming glory, love and adore Him for everything He is and has done, and experience fullness of life through complete enjoyment of Him. For this reason I was created – to rejoice in God.
How can this overwhelmingly Good, True, and Beautiful God – my Savior and my Creator – find pleasure and delight in me? How can He sit resplendent in His throne room and dare to recognize me and, not only that, but also to identify me as His very own princess? How can He think my hands are holy and my walk is blameless? How can He create me just that I might share and rejoice in His glory?

It is INSANE!

That is the only explanation I have. But the beauty of it is that this is only insane from my point of view – it only seems insane to me because it is a Truth so Good and so Beautiful that my human understanding will never fathom it. Yet, in reality, His love is NOT insane or purposeless. His love has reason – it is based on His honor, glory, justice, grace… His entire character. God is Good. No; He is more than Good, more than I can ever understand! I am so in debt… but He has already paid it! What can I do to thank Him for His insanity, or lack thereof? All I can do is praise Him. All I can do is acknowledge to Him all the glory that He deserves. The funny thing is, the very act of praising/glorifying God is also the act in which we enjoy Him most. Thus, by His nature we are compelled to do the very thing which we were created to do, which most fulfills us; we are compelled to glorify Him.

Praise the LORD, O my soul.
Praise the LORD!