Grace & Compassion

Consider the endless, bottomless, boundless grace and compassion that is in Christ, the God of Zion. It is not the grace of a creature, nor all the grace that can possibly be found in any created nature, which will satisfy all our needs. We are too needy to be satisfied by a mere creature. But in Christ's human nature there is fulness of grace, for he did not receive 'the Spirit by measure' (John 3:34). In Christ there is a fulness like that of light in the sun, or of water in the sea. It is a fulness imcomparably above the fulness of angels. Yet in Christ's human nature, then thirsty, guilty souls, would soon drain him dry. Christ's human nature on its own would not meet all our needs except in a moral way. But when the well of his humanity is inseparably united to the infinite, inexhaustible reservoir of his deity, who can possibly drain him dry?

John Owen, Communion With God, P. 61