Good Morning Friends,
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom
and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond
tracing out! ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his
counselor?’ ‘Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?’ For from him
and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.” (Romans 11:33-36)
Romans 11 is a difficult chapter. It speaks
of election and hardening and foreknowledge and the irrevocability of the call
of God, and a future ingathering of Jews, saying “and so all Israel will be
saved”.
I don’t understand all that Romans 11 teaches.
The depth of Paul’s knowledge of God is revealed in this chapter, and it’s more
than I can grasp. This is not the only part of the Bible that is hard for me to
understand! There many things about God and His ways in the world that are
beyond my grasp. How do you handle it when you can’t understand something about God or something
that He has done?
I’ve come to the same conclusion that Paul
did: I trust God, even with what I do not understand. Although the depth of
Paul’s understanding was great, there was still much about God that was beyond
him. Paul concluded that God’s judgments are unsearchable, that what God is up
to in the future in “beyond tracing out.” There are mysteries about God that we
won’t understand until we’re with Him for eternity.
Does that mean we shouldn’t try to understand
God? Of course not, we should continue to seek greater knowledge of Him. But we
shouldn’t allow our lack of understanding be a stumbling block to our faith
There are many things that just need to be
put on the shelf and reserved until God can explain them to us when our minds
are able to grasp them. In fact, if there weren’t things of that nature, then
God wouldn’t be big enough to be God. If God is only as big as my mind can
grasp, then He’s not a very big God!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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