We Can’t Understand
But this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
It is one thing to accept a limitation of our understanding of God, but it’s not helpful just leaving it there.
When we do this, we end up diminishing who we are as humans created in His image.
What do I mean?
When we decide we can’t completely understand God, we then follow this with a decision not to attempt to understand him at all.
This is a way of avoiding responsibility.
Any instructions coming from God, like The Ten Commandments, can now be ignored.
As God loses his personality and becomes to us a general force of nature we then see an opportunity to take over, occupy his throne, and run our own lives (and the lives of others).
But we know from history as well as our own lives it doesn’t go well whenever we try to play God.
For this reason, the more we can understand about his nature, the better our lives can and will become.
That’s a tall claim I know, but it actually only looks strange from the outside, not when anyone takes the plunge to open their spirit to His.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah