Job 36:26a – How great is God–beyond our understanding!
Isaiah 40:13-14 – Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as His counselor? 14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the right way? Who was it that taught Him knowledge, or showed Him the path of understanding?
Romans 3:11 – There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
Oh Lord God, I know so little. I understand even less. The world is grand and big and the people who populate it are amazing and incredible creations of Your design. What I have been taught in schools, in books, in listening, is true one day, one year, and then the next not true. I grew up loving the Brontosaurus as I played with my dinosaur toys. I loved the gargantuan “thunder lizard.” Then my heart was broken as, alas, it was reported that the Brontosaurus was in fact the Apatosaurus and so the name Brontosaurus was to be dropped from the science books. Then, after the passing of years, to my delight, it was reported that the Brontosaurus was not the Apatosaurus so I could again take pleasure in this gentle giant.
Likewise Pluto, the icy ninth planet from the sun. I grew up looking at the stars at night. I was always amazed and dumbfounded. I wondered if one could approach, the planets, or ride the asteroids or get closer to the suns of the universe. I hoped that man would one day explore this distant mysterious planet. Then we were told it was not a planet. It made me wonder what “science” really knows for sure. Now Pluto is called a dwarf planet. So it is a planet, only a small one. And “science” now states there may be a hundred or more planets in our galaxy, some full sized and some dwarf planets. Maybe so, we shall see.
Science changes it “facts” (not a true science such as mathematics). What is adamantly proclaimed today may change drastically tomorrow. Man is always learning. Yet what is man and what is the value of his thoughts? (1 Peter 1:24, Psalm 102:11) All people are here today and gone tomorrow. (James 4:14, Psalm 39:5) So what do we hold as absolute truth? What is unchanging? It is easy to understand how man, apart from the knowledge of God, may think that there is no absolute truth. Family, it is only God who is the high and only Truth. (John 14:6, Psalm 119:160) God does not change. He is all Truth and He has always been and will always be. He is the great I AM, who is ever present from past eternal to future eternal. (Exodus 3:14) He is the omnipresent constant that precedes and endures beyond time. He cannot learn because He knows everything. Modern thought is new to man but not to Him. He has known all that man would think since before the existence of mankind to even think. Besides, God who knows everything and always has does not seek the counsel of men, with their ever-changing opinions and “facts.” God is constant and eternally so. The day is coming when all the physical “reality” around us will be have served its purpose and be burned away to give way to the new earth. (2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21:1) So we see, the truth that man proclaims as high truth is “truths” about the earth and universe and they are not the highest truth and are not even a permanent truth. There is only one high and permanent truth and that is the eternal God. And God, who loves us, gave the highest Truth to us in His Word and He reveals it to us by His Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:6-16, John 14:26) God created all of creation and it is God who explains and reveals it to mankind in His Word. Long before the inhabitants of the earth figured out the world was a sphere and not flat, the Bible taught us so. (Isaiah 40:22) Long before mankind figured out that the moon was not itself a light, the Bible proclaimed it in Job 25:5a “Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not.” God’s truth is supreme because God is supreme. (Isaiah 45:5, Psalm 95:3) His thoughts are so much higher than our thoughts that we cannot begin to fathom even the infiniteness of who He is, or why He does what He does. (Isaiah 55:9) We know in part, but by His Spirit He reveals truth beyond human comprehension. Eternal Truth is given by God and achieved by no man. We do know this for sure. (Matthew 16:17) We know that He is love and that He loves us. (1 John 4:8, John 3:16) Yet even in that we cannot understand what His love is unless He reveals it to us. (Ephesians 3:16-19) Fleshly love is not godly love. (1 John 2:15-17) God’s love is something to know that it is, but is beyond us fulling comprehending it. We can walk in it, but not fully understand it. Like a child playing in the forest, the child can behold the beauty of it and enjoy the magnificence of it without fully understanding how or what it is. The child merely knows that the forest is and that the child enjoys it. And so we know that God is, though we do not have the ability to fully know how or what He is. That does not preclude us from enjoying the “forest” of who He is and His great love for us. So, let us learn of God. Let’s drink from the cup of fellowship that He offers to all who come to Him through Jesus, who is the only way to Him. (1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 John 1:3, Acts 4:12) Let’s know God by seeking Him through the Way He has provided. (John 14:6) We do not understand fully, not in this life, and probably never will. A child walks in the love of its parents and grandparents, yet does not know everything about them or what they know, but still reaps the benefit of their existence and love. How much more so us with God! Learn of God yes. The Truth will set us free (John 8:32), and that freedom increases as we grow in Him, in His love and in His Word. Freedom given by God is limitless and that by His love and the very nature of Him. God is good all the time and He loves us. Amen and praise the Lord God Almighty! Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Your God.
Numbers 6:24-26 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.”