âO the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out.â Romans 11:33
This bewildered, confused, religious world (unaware of their confusion) thinks it has the inexhaustible, incomprehensible God of all creation solved. A god that can be discovered is not God at all. That god is a figment of the imagination and does not exist. A man may draw up a few guidelines of religious order; he may devise a neat layout of programs and forms and fit the god of his mind into it, and yet miss the true God altogether and never know it. Do you suppose that could be what is described by our Lord in Matthew 7:21-23, âNot everyone who says to me, âLord, Lordâ, shall enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, âLord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name?â And then I will declare to them, âI never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessnessâ.â What a poor fool misses by mere natural religion; he receives spiritual understanding only by divine revelation. And what he receives by revelation is an understanding of the nature of God, which is His spirituality. âGod is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truthâ (John 4:24). By missing this they never see more that âthe man upstairs,â a god whom they control. Said an old theologian; âA nature belongs to every creature which is difficult to understand; and also to God which is most difficult of all.â What a statement! From that let me give you a question to ponder. How do men think they have the God of the Bible figured out when they canât begin to understand one another? Even better, Jobâs friend, Zophar, asked this question, âCan you, by searching, find out God? Can you find out the almighty to perfection?â (Job 11:7). Paul said in I Cor.1:21, âThe world (even the wisest of the wise) by wisdom knew not God.â The incomprehensibleness of God is a fact, yet a fact that should not despair believers from searching after Him. Somewhat of Godâs nature may be apprehended by our minds, yet can never be fully understood. Though we can never fully comprehend God, there is a source of apprehension and that source is Christ. Philip said to Him, âShow us the Father and it will satisfy us. Christ said to Philip, Have I been so long with you and you have not seen the Father? If you have seen me you have seen the Father.â Paul gives the source of âfinding outâ God in II Corinthians 4:6, saying, âGod gives the light of the knowledge of His glory in the face (marginal reference âpersonâ) of Jesus Christ.â Study theology, for theology is good, but study Christ because Christology is better.