“O, the depth of
the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How inscrutable are His judgments, and
untraceable His ways! For who knew the
mind of the Lord? Or, who became His adviser? Or who gives to Him first, and it
will be repaid him? Seeing that out of
Him and through Him and for Him is all:
to Him be the glory for the eons!
Amen!” (Romans 11:33-36 CLNT)
The depth of the
riches, wisdom, and knowledge of God is deeper than humanly fathomable!
There may be people who claim to know all the secrets of God and claim to have God and His ways all figured out. The reality is that they do not. They cannot. Discovering the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God is a life long journey. It is not a destination we arrive at while we live on this earth.
“But as for me, I would seek God, and I would place my cause before God; Who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.” (Job 5:8-9 NAS)
Every day,
I observe God orchestrate many things which I consider unsearchable—beyond my imagination
or comprehension. I observe God working
and moving in ways that seem utterly untraceable to me. The older I get, the more I am aware of how
little I know and understand.
“Can you discover
the depths of God? Can you discover the
limits of the Almighty? They are high as
the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than
Sheol (the
unseen), what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and
broader than the sea.” (Job 11:7-8)
To
say that the measure of the depths of God is longer than the earth and broader
than the sea is an understatement. Can
we discover the depths of God? It is a very
long journey there, and we face many distractions along the way.
Can
we discover the limits of Him Who is mighty over all? I don’t think so. Does He, YHWH, have any limits? How can the All-Mighty have limits? Is there anything the All-Mighty cannot do? He is the One Who creates all, out of Whom all is. How can He have
limits? He is the one Who sets
limits.
How
can we discover His depths? His depths
are limitless. We know so little—we’ve
barely dipped ourselves under the surface of God. We’re only snorkeling about. We find ourselves hanging on to the world outside of
the ocean depths. We’re afraid to let go of our dependence on earthly things in order to swim farther and dive deeper.
We’re dependent and secure upon the things we have waiting for us at
the shore, even though they are on shifting sand.
I
can’t deny that diving deep into the ocean of God may be intimidating or frightening
at times. After all, in His ocean of
riches, wisdom, and knowledge, we have no earthly ground to set our feet upon. God carries us by His waves, as He sees
fit. We get to ride His waves and have
Him lead us from discovery to discovery.
However, even though we may have no earthly ground to rely on, we do have
a spiritual ground which is more solid than any man made steel on this earth. That spiritual ground is Christ.
The
Lord Christ Jesus takes and leads us through the lifetime journey of
discovery. He is the One chosen to
reveal God, YHWH, to us.
“…there is no other
God except One. For even if so be that
there are those being termed gods, whether in heaven or on earth…nevertheless…there
is one God, the Father, out of Whom all is, and we for Him, and one Lord, Jesus
Christ, through Whom all is, and we through Him.” (1 Corinthians 8:4-7)
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