Today's Insight - August 26, 2015
Think It Over
by Charles R. Swindoll
What are the benefits of realizing God Incomprehensible? We no longer reduce Him to manageable terms. We are no longer tempted to manipulate Him and His will . . . or defend Him and His ways. Like the grieving prophet, we get new glimpses of Him "lofty and exalted," surrounded by legions of seraphim who witness Him as the "Lord of hosts" as they shout forth His praises in antiphonal voice (Isa. 6:1–2). All this gives new meaning to the psalmist's ancient hymn:
O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth. . . .
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
What is man that You take thought of him? (Ps. 8:1, 3–4)
"What is man . . . ?" What a great question!
In a world consumed with thoughts of itself, filled with people impressed with each other, having disconnected with the only One worthy of praise, it's time we return to Theology 101 and sit silently in His presence. It's time we catch a fresh glimpse of Him who, alone, is awesome yea, incomprehensible. He is our infinite, inexhaustible God. Any serious study of Him takes us from an unconscious to conscious awareness of our ignorance.
The One we worship defies human analysis.
View God as "lofty and exalted," and you won’t reduce Him to manageable terms. —Chuck Swindoll Tweet This
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