Incomprehensible

Meditations for Ragamuffins 

March 19, 2024

Incomprehensible

As you do not know the path of the wind,
    or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
    the Maker of all things.

Ecclesiastes 11:5 

If God wasn’t incomprehensible, He couldn’t be omnipotent (all-powerful), omnipresent (present everywhere at the same time), and omniscient (all-knowing). I believe our greatest inability to understand the activity of God is in our inability to comprehend God’s grace. Jesus promises us that “God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs” (Matthew 5:3).

Jesus says that the key to God’s heart is not found in our knowledge or our good works. Jesus says that the key to God’s heart is found in our recognition of our spiritual poverty.  When we recognize we can’t save ourselves, no matter how hard we try; when we simply plead for mercy, we possess God’s Kingdom. Incomprehensible!

Yes, the writer of Ecclesiastes is right: we “cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.” Even so, God, who by His nature is incomprehensible, invites us to know Him: “Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him” (2 Corinthians 3:18 MSG). The incomprehensible God of the universe invites us to become like Him!

His ways are higher than our ways: we cannot understand the activity of God; He is without question incomprehensible. But He invites us to:

“Taste and see that the Lord is good”

Psalm 34:8a

The incomprehensible God of the universe speaks to us: 

“The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”

Romans 8:16

My Takeaway: Anyone else need to pause here and fall to their knees? 

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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