"For My thoughs are not yoyr thoughs, Neither
are your ways My ways," declare the Lord.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways, And
My though than your thoughts."
ISAIAH 55:8-9
God is the Potter; we are the clay. He's the
Shepherd; we are the sheep. He's the Master,
we are the servant. No matter how educated
we are, no matter hiw much
power and influence we may think we have, no
matter how long we have walked with Him, no
matter how significant we may imagine
ourselves to be in His plans (if any if us could
even claim significant). none of that qualifies
us to grasp the first particle of why He does
what He does when He does it and how He
choose to do it.
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the
wisdom and knowledge ofGod! How
unsearchable are His judglents and
unfathomable His ways! "For who has known
the mind if the Lord, or who became His
counselor?" (Romans 11;33-34).
In an old work by Origen, On First Principles,
the great church father underscores what the
apostle of grace meant when he wrotes the
statement:
Paul did not say that God's judgments were
hard to search out but they could not be
searched out at all. He did not say that God's
ways were hard to find out but that they were
impossible to find out. For however far one
may advance in the search and make progress
through an increasing earnest study, even when
aided and enlightened in the mind by God's
grace, he will never be able to reach the final
goal of his inquiries.
As I thinks about God's unfathomable ways
and the theme of his book, I am reminded of the
six year old boy who had been given an
assignment to draw anything he wanted to draw.
But when everyone else in the class had finished
drawing, he still sitting there working on his
picture. finallynnthe teacher walked back and l
ooked over his shoulder.
"What are you drawing?" she asked.
"I'm drawing a picture of God," said the boy.
"You need to remember, Johnny, no one has
ever seen God.
Nobody knows what He looks like."
"Well. . . they will when I'm through,"
said Johnny.
That's what I would love to think about this
book that when I have finished writing and
printer had finished printing and all my reader
have finished reading, thatvpeople will at least
will know what the will of God looks like. But
even though I think we will all have learned
somethings together, in all humility and reality,
I kniw that you xon't find it all, or dee it all in
these pages. So, don't get your hopes up!
are your ways My ways," declare the Lord.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways, And
My though than your thoughts."
ISAIAH 55:8-9
God is the Potter; we are the clay. He's the
Shepherd; we are the sheep. He's the Master,
we are the servant. No matter how educated
we are, no matter hiw much
power and influence we may think we have, no
matter how long we have walked with Him, no
matter how significant we may imagine
ourselves to be in His plans (if any if us could
even claim significant). none of that qualifies
us to grasp the first particle of why He does
what He does when He does it and how He
choose to do it.
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the
wisdom and knowledge ofGod! How
unsearchable are His judglents and
unfathomable His ways! "For who has known
the mind if the Lord, or who became His
counselor?" (Romans 11;33-34).
In an old work by Origen, On First Principles,
the great church father underscores what the
apostle of grace meant when he wrotes the
statement:
Paul did not say that God's judgments were
hard to search out but they could not be
searched out at all. He did not say that God's
ways were hard to find out but that they were
impossible to find out. For however far one
may advance in the search and make progress
through an increasing earnest study, even when
aided and enlightened in the mind by God's
grace, he will never be able to reach the final
goal of his inquiries.
As I thinks about God's unfathomable ways
and the theme of his book, I am reminded of the
six year old boy who had been given an
assignment to draw anything he wanted to draw.
But when everyone else in the class had finished
drawing, he still sitting there working on his
picture. finallynnthe teacher walked back and l
ooked over his shoulder.
"What are you drawing?" she asked.
"I'm drawing a picture of God," said the boy.
"You need to remember, Johnny, no one has
ever seen God.
Nobody knows what He looks like."
"Well. . . they will when I'm through,"
said Johnny.
That's what I would love to think about this
book that when I have finished writing and
printer had finished printing and all my reader
have finished reading, thatvpeople will at least
will know what the will of God looks like. But
even though I think we will all have learned
somethings together, in all humility and reality,
I kniw that you xon't find it all, or dee it all in
these pages. So, don't get your hopes up!
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