Lured by Infinity

In John Piper’s recent post, “All Truth Is God’s Truth,” Admits the Devil — Meditations on an Academic Slogan, he rightly demonstrates that truth (and the pursuit of truth) is not virtuous unless “it awakens desire and delight in us for the God of truth.”

Indeed, all truth is God’s truth, but even the devil knows that.  God’s truth should be known, shown, and most importantly loved.  Without loving the God of truth, our knowing and showing is not as we ought.

Those of us involved in science and engineering study and use God’s natural truths.  We strive to understand, discover, and design.  Some are motivated by comfortable careers, others by knowing and being bearers of the knowledge.  But, as Piper points out, unless we are ultimately motivated by loving the God of truth, we are, at best, instrument that pass on truth but do not love truth in a virtuous way.  Believers that lovingly embrace more fully the God of truth when we learn or discover these truths then and only then celebrate truth virtuously.

May all of us, scientist or not, know as we ought to know — by loving God more fully through that knowledge.