The loss to be desired

I know in the contemplation of [the glory of Christ] , it will quickly overwhelm our reason, and bring our understanding into a loss: but to this loss do I desire to be brought every day; for when faith can no more act itself in comprehension, when it finds the object it is fixed on too great and glorious to be brought into our minds and capacities, it will issue (as we have said before) in holy admiration, humble adoration, and joyful thanksgiving. In and by its acting in them it fills the soul with 'joy unspeakable and full of glory' (1 Pet. 1:8). (Owen, John. "The Glory of Christ." Glasgow: Christian Heritage. 2004. p106)

It is striking to me that in loving God with all his mind, Owen is vividly aware that the glory of Christ is so far greater than reason can comprehend that we will be drawn into awe-filled worship.