Incomprehensible

Guatemala has been incredible so far! I plan on doing a ministry update soon but here’s a peak into what the Lord has been teaching me!

The more I know about God, the more I realize how much I need a Savior and how incredible it is that God would give grace to me, a sinful human. it doesn’t make sense to my human brain that the Lord would give me grace but praise God that he does!

In the last few days the God has been teaching me a lot about his character and part of that learning process has come through a book study that my team has been doing called None Like Him by Jen Wilkin. The Lord has been revealing to me that I can rest in the fact that I will never understand fully who God is. As a person who loves to know answers it takes a mind shift to be okay with this idea. But I also find so much awe in being in a relationship with a God so big that no one can measure, a God who is incomprehensible, a God that can never be fully understood is one that transcending peace and unspeakable joy can be found in!

“Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.”

Psalms 145:3

Knowing that we will never fully know God does not provide a valid reason to not pursue an understanding of who he is, instead it awakens an awestruck wonder of the amazing creator we serve. We can rest in the fact that “God is incomprehensible. This does not mean that he is unknowable, but that he is unable to be fully known” (Wilkin). How cool is it that I will never run out of things to discover about the Lord.

“Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.”

Job 11:7-9

I don’t want to serve a God who can be measured or put in a box. I want to serve a God who I will always be growing in understanding of. This idea at first was overwhelming to me to know that I will never fully understand God but I’ve realized that it takes the pressure off. There is not a finish line to reach but rather it’s a journey we get to take.

God is not hiding his character because there are parts of him that are bad that require hiding but rather he knows that we can’t comprehend his goodness fully. When we know a friend fully we are faced with both the good and the bad but it’s different with God, he can only be good. Think about the fact that the goodness of the Lord that you and I know is only a fraction of his full glory! The full amount is immeasurable, more than anyone could imagine or understand.

jI stand in awe of the one we get to call Father and the one we get to walk each day with. I thank the Lord for his incomprehensible character and the rest found in that idea.