"For My thoughs are not your 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 how 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
of 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 of God! How
unsearchable are His judgments and
unfathomable His ways! "For who has known
the mind of 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. finally the teacher walked back and
looked liked 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, that people 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 know that
you don't find it all, or see it all in these pages.
So, don't get your hoping 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 how 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
of 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 of God! How
unsearchable are His judgments and
unfathomable His ways! "For who has known
the mind of 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. finally the teacher walked back and
looked liked 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, that people 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 know that
you don't find it all, or see it all in these pages.
So, don't get your hoping up!
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