The Creator of the universe loves us, each of us, personally! What a wonder! Hallelujah! Amen. But every now and then, we are blown away by the depth of your love. The most amazing thing about you, Lord, the most mysterious thing to us, is your love. Help us to trust you, even when your ways are frustratingly different from what we would expect and desire. Your ways are higher than ours, so much higher! As you know, Lord, sometimes this is distressing to us, especially when it seems like your love and justice are taking a nap. There is so much about you that we will never understand, at least not this side of Heaven. Yet we accept the limitations of our knowledge. How blessed we are to know you, to serve you, and to love you! Your revelation, in history, in Scripture, in Jesus Christ, and in our hearts, is a priceless gift. Gracious God, first of all, we want to thank you for making yourself known to us. When have you felt overwhelmed by the wonder of God’s grace? PRAYER: What about God do you find hardest to understand? How do you feel when you can’t figure out God? The more we reflect upon the mind-blowing goodness of God, the more we’ll echo the words of Paul in Romans 11:33: “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!” For Paul, as for us, the mystery of God’s grace leads to astonished praise. I’m talking about the wonder of God’s grace, his limitless mercy, his unfathomable love. Yet, the greatest mystery of God’s nature leads us not to exasperation but to exaltation. For example, when God allows the innocent to suffer, when he fails to act in ways that would seem to bring him glory, and when he appears to say “no” to our fervent prayers, we struggle to accept God’s inscrutability. Sometimes they are frustratingly mysterious. Sometimes they are gloriously mysterious. Enhanced with AI to help you remember without wasting time on categorizing. The Lord made this clear in Isaiah 55:8, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.” A private place to save your most precious notes, images, quotes and highlights. Over time, I have come to realize that, although there are many things we can know about God because he has revealed them to us, our understanding has limits. Nor did I account for how sin gets in the way of our knowing God. I didn’t take into consideration my own limitations as a human being and God’s unlimited nature. In retrospect, I think my desire to know God was laudable, but my expectations were naïve. I thought that if I worked hard enough and was completely logical, then everything about God would ultimately make sense. When I was a teenager, I wanted to figure out God. “As the heavens are higher than the earth,Īnd my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9
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