Incomparable Perfection

"That the God of Israel is a being of incomparable perfection. We cannot describe him; but this we know, there is none like him in heaven or in earth."

From Matthew Henry's commentary on 2 Chronicles 6:12-42. Solomon has built the Temple that his father David could not build. Solomon says of God in verse 14; "O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no god like Thee in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Thy servants who walk before Thee with all their heart."

How BIG is your God?  Solomon's God was enormous!  There was no other god like HIM in all of the universe and that is a very large area.  No god who kept a covenant with and showed vast amounts of LOVE to His followers, who followed him with all their heart.  

I would challenge you to read Solomon's prayer in 2nd Chronicles as he teaches us to be humble servants of a great and mighty God.

Matthew Henry so adequately explains what we can learn from this passage:

      As, 1. That the God of Israel is a being of incomparable perfection. We cannot describe him; but this we know, there is none like him in heaven or in earth, v. 14. All the creatures have their fellow-creatures, but the Creator has not his peer. He is infinitely above all, and over all, God blessed for ever. 2. That he is, and will be, true to every word that he has spoken; and all that serve him in sincerity shall certainly find him both faithful and kind. Those that set God always before them, and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them, v. 14. 3. That he is a being infinite and immense, whom the heaven, and heaven of heavens, cannot contain, and to whose felicity nothing is added by the utmost we can do in his service, v. 18. He is infinitely beyond the bounds of the creation and infinitely above the praises of all intelligent creatures. 4. That he, and he only, knows the hearts of the children of men, v. 30. All men’s thoughts, aims, and affections, are naked and open before him; and, however the imaginations and intents of our hearts may be concealed from men, angels, and devils, they cannot be hidden from God, who knows not only what is in the heart, but the heart itself and all the beatings of it. 5. That there is no such thing as a sinless perfection to be found in this life (v. 36): There is no man who sinneth not; nay, who doeth good and sinneth not; so he writes, agreeable to what he here says, Eccl. 7:20.

God has no equal, He is above all and over all, He is true to every word He has ever spoken and all that serve Him in sincerity shall find Him both faithful and kind, that those who set God before them...keeping Him first in everything shall find Him good and He will show mercy to them.

Thanks be to God for servants like Solomon who teach us about God's greatness.  May we keep God at the center of all we think, believe, act and do, each and every moment of our existence here on this planet.