Incomprehensible

January 16, 2015

Incomprehensible

Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does 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). Perhaps the greatest measure of our inability to understand the activity of God is in His 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!

Some people agree that you cannot explain the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb. They know the mysteries of the universe are beyond our comprehension. They agree that Jesus was a good man, a wise teacher. They acknowledge that trying to follow his teaching is a better alternative than all the other philosophies of life our culture lifts up. Such self-assurance, combined with religion, only yields arrogance and pride and has but one end: “Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18).

Yes, the writer of Ecclesiastes is right: we “cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.” However, I believe the incomprehensibility of God’s grace is exceeded by the promise that we can actually experience God’s grace: “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).

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 34:8); He invites us to become like Him!

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. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

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·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ  is available as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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