I love a mystery. Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Hercule Poirot, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Miss Marple are all detectives. Fictional, of course, but they solved mysteries. I used to try to figure out “who did it,” but I was never very good at deducting the guilty person. They always solved the case. They figure out the cuprite by the clues given throughout the story.
There are parts of God that will always be a mystery to us.
“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.” Job 11:7-9 ESV
“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.” Psalms 145:3
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“Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.” Psalms 147:5 ESV
If we were to ponder deeply on God’s omnipresence, eternality, and almightiness, we could become overwhelmed.
We will never truly know God fully, as we know ourselves or some people around us. We are finite creatures created by an infinite God. Our nature limits us in knowing an unlimited God.
In His sovereign wisdom, God has not revealed to us everything about Him.
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law” Deut. 29:29 ESV
I like what C.H. Spurgeon tells about the incomprehensibility of God. “As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine.”
If we were to know God fully, where would that leave us?
As long as we live in some ways, God will be a mystery. As believers, we should be ok with that. We will never “solve” the mystery of God, but God has given us “clues” to who He is. The Bible is God’s revelation of Himself to the world. We can know God. It will never be an exhaustive knowledge, but it will be personal and sufficient knowledge of His character and attributes. It is enough to know that we can trust Him with our lives. It is through faith and knowledge of Him that we know Him.
So as we know that we will never fully understand God, let’s strive to dig deep into His Word to know Him through His Word. His revelation to us.
Amen!!!