Praising God for His Impassibility

I just finished an article by Kevin DeYoung on the Impassibility of God. That is, God's attribute that affirms His inability to suffer involuntarily or be acted upon externally. The article was written for the breakout session that he spoke at Together for the Gospel 2010. The fifth point in the article makes me want to break out and worship God. It's amazing! Here are two paragraphs:

Listen to Hebrews 2:9: ―But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. This is a purpose statement. The Son of God had to be made for a little while lower than the angels so that he might taste death. Apart from the incarnation, the Son could not die, because God by definition is immortal.

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Do you see the connection in all of this with the doctrine of impassibility? If God as God can suffer then the incarnation is robbed of its glorious condescension. There‘s no mystery and no majesty in the incarnation apart from impassibility. Why become a man if God is capable of experiencing all that needs to be experienced in order to save men?

I hope you see the wisdom, mercy, and love of God in the incarnation of Christ. Look at that, just in time for Christmas.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
“Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” 

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Romans 11:33-36