Then Job answered the LORD, and said, “I know that thou canst do all things, And no purpose of Thine can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ “Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.” Job 42:1-3 (New American Standard Bible)
Job was a man who struggled with the need to logically categorize God’s plans. Thousands of years later I also find myself struggling with doing the same thing by limiting God into a boxy type of vision. You see for years I thought to truly understand my faith I needed to absolutely know how God worked. Because of that I tried to package Him in various gospels according to Ken and sell Him to others. Fortunately God never fit into my limited vision. Just when I thought I had Him figured out He would gloriously burst out of my tiny box. At this stage in my relationship with Him I’m happy He doesn’t allow me to limit Him. He’s so much smarter than I am.
One of the most liberating things I’ve ever read was that we can’t know God’s mind and it’s OK that we can’t. Knowing that I don’t have to understand the reasoning behind His methods takes a lot of pressure off. If I could understand God then He wouldn’t be God. I was amused recently to hear a man on TV say, “God wouldn’t send His Son through a virgin. That’s an impossibility.” Well, if He’s God why would it be difficult for him? A human certainly couldn’t make it happen but God isn’t limited by human frailty. If He is a completely holy, All Knowing and All Powerful intelligent Being (Almighty) who wants to do it His way then why would His ways and methods seem logical to those of us who aren’t? Why wouldn’t He hate sin to such an extent that He would sacrifice Himself to destroy it? If He is God couldn’t He resurrect Himself from the dead (compare John 2:19)? The story is laid out logically in Scripture and verified historically. If He’s God isn’t He capable of doing it that way? If He’s God why wouldn’t He be able to be the biological vehicle for a young Jewish girl to conceive and bear Himself in human form as the Son of God? What’s so hard about it? The ancient Jewish prophets said He would. God isn’t illogical but He does know ways and means of doing something that are way beyond our way of doing things. You ought to all be thankful I’m not God. If you think He doesn’t know what He’s doing, you’d absolutely call for the mountains to fall on you if I had the power.
Because God is perfectly holy everything He does is controlled perfection. He is perfect in love, perfect in His patience and restraint, perfect in the way He bestows justice, perfect in mercy and perfect in how He controls every event for His own reasons and honor. I am trying to understand that He indeed has the right to choose to do anything in any way He thinks is best. Because He is perfectly holy He understands me and my ways completely. He isn’t disappointed in me when I doubt or when I try to fit Him into little boxes. Instead I believe He delights in showing me how easily He breaks free of my limitations and reveals to me the wonder of His ways and how well things turn out through His overall plan. I can’t keep Him in a box and I’m happy for that. Thankfully He never allows Himself to be put in those kinds of limitations. He is the Bread of Life but He isn’t limited to the bread box.
Thank you Jesus that You are the Becoming One. You are able to become the specific answer to my every need.
Ken
www.devotionstoday.blogspot.com
One of the most liberating things I’ve ever read was that we can’t know God’s mind and it’s OK that we can’t. Knowing that I don’t have to understand the reasoning behind His methods takes a lot of pressure off. If I could understand God then He wouldn’t be God. I was amused recently to hear a man on TV say, “God wouldn’t send His Son through a virgin. That’s an impossibility.” Well, if He’s God why would it be difficult for him? A human certainly couldn’t make it happen but God isn’t limited by human frailty. If He is a completely holy, All Knowing and All Powerful intelligent Being (Almighty) who wants to do it His way then why would His ways and methods seem logical to those of us who aren’t? Why wouldn’t He hate sin to such an extent that He would sacrifice Himself to destroy it? If He is God couldn’t He resurrect Himself from the dead (compare John 2:19)? The story is laid out logically in Scripture and verified historically. If He’s God isn’t He capable of doing it that way? If He’s God why wouldn’t He be able to be the biological vehicle for a young Jewish girl to conceive and bear Himself in human form as the Son of God? What’s so hard about it? The ancient Jewish prophets said He would. God isn’t illogical but He does know ways and means of doing something that are way beyond our way of doing things. You ought to all be thankful I’m not God. If you think He doesn’t know what He’s doing, you’d absolutely call for the mountains to fall on you if I had the power.
Because God is perfectly holy everything He does is controlled perfection. He is perfect in love, perfect in His patience and restraint, perfect in the way He bestows justice, perfect in mercy and perfect in how He controls every event for His own reasons and honor. I am trying to understand that He indeed has the right to choose to do anything in any way He thinks is best. Because He is perfectly holy He understands me and my ways completely. He isn’t disappointed in me when I doubt or when I try to fit Him into little boxes. Instead I believe He delights in showing me how easily He breaks free of my limitations and reveals to me the wonder of His ways and how well things turn out through His overall plan. I can’t keep Him in a box and I’m happy for that. Thankfully He never allows Himself to be put in those kinds of limitations. He is the Bread of Life but He isn’t limited to the bread box.
Thank you Jesus that You are the Becoming One. You are able to become the specific answer to my every need.
Ken
www.devotionstoday.blogspot.com
