Jesus Is Incomprehensible

Throughout the ages, God has been gracious to  reveal Himself to us, both in creation as well as in special revelation (the Word being chief).

But there is much about Him that we can never know. He is before all things and surpasses all things, the Rock of Ages that fills the whole earth. He dwells in the highest heavens in unapproachable light and consuming fire, and everything that comes to pass is from His hand:

“I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.”

Who is sufficient to understand this?

“Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.”

Who can possibly claim to have explored the full depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God?

“How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!”

“Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord?”

—as if such a thing were even possible!

“Who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”

“The thunder of his power who can understand?”

The only satisfactory answer that can be given to these ineffable queries is worship:

“O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind.”

Jesus, I praise You that you have revealed yourself to us in a way that our shallow minds can partially contain. Expand our souls with an ever-increasing passion to know more of you, and by that knowledge constrain us to a more perfect obedience!

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”