Meditation for Monday

O the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! Romans 11:33

Do you know what an agnostic is? An agnostic is a person who believes there is no way to tell if God exists or no way to tell anything about God if He does exist. The apostle Paul was not an agnostic, that is for sure. He firmly believed and taught that we can know God personally and can learn much about Him. But in today’s text, Paul is acknowledging that the extent of God’s wisdom and knowledge are far beyond what you and I could ever figure out. Just thinking about God’s wisdom and acknowledge amazed the apostle. It should amaze us too.

Our God is all-knowing and all wise. He can never be surprised and He can never make a mistake. We can’t get our minds around that because our minds are continually being bombarded with surprises, with confusion, with disappointments, and with errors in judgment, all of which are foreign to God. As we stagger at the magnitude of a God of such wisdom and knowledge, we seek to grasp the significance of that wisdom and knowledge combined with a love that is perfect, unconditional, and eternal. No wonder Paul could exclaim about the depths of the riches of God’s wisdom and knowledge!

A little boy plays on the beach, allowing the ripples of the gentle waves to bathe his tiny toes. He picks up pretty shells and stones, and wades a bit deeper to the pools around the rocks, and delights in the minnows and crabs that live among the seaweed. For this little boy, the ocean is a marvellous place, and he gazes occasionally out across its broad expanse to enjoy the beauty of the sunlight sparking on the waves. But, we might say, the lad knows next to nothing about the ocean; all he has ever seen and heard, smelled, and felt, is just that one tiny beach. The ocean is so much more, so vast and deep, so far-flung its shores, so varied in the scenes along the coasts of the lands it laves. And yet, that little boy is like you and me. We are delighted with what little of God we are able to experience and grasp. But beyond our depth, beyond our sight, beyond our experience, lies so much more than we could ever imagine of God and His wisdom and knowledge.

It is true that in this life we cannot ever know very much about God. But we can praise Him today that in the Person of His Son, He has revealed Himself to us as the God whose depths of wisdom and knowledge are incalculable and inexhaustible. -Jim MacIntosh

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