Our Bible verse for today: “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3 (CSB)
Our thought for today: “God delights in revealing mysteries.”
God is incomprehensible. There is much more about Him than we can possibly begin to understand. God far exceeds the limits of the human brain’s ability to process and understand. Think about it, if God could fit into my little pea-brain then He wouldn’t be much of a God because He would have to be something less than the limits of my brain. But the truth is that He far exceeds me and my ability to understand. All of creation cannot contain Him, much less the limits of my brain.
Since that is the case, when we think about God we find ourselves wrestling with concepts and ideas that are beyond our ability to fully comprehend. This is the mystery of God. But the mystery isn’t a bad thing, it’s a good thing. First of all it means that God is the greatest reality that exists. There is no one and no thing greater than God. Second, His very greatness makes all of His other attributes possible. As we will see in days to come, in addition to being incomprehensible He is All-powerful (Omnipotent), All-knowing (Omniscient), and All-present (Omnipresent) – just to name a few of His other attributes.
Another reason the mysteries of God are so important and so helpful is that discovering new truths about Him is a big part of the adventure of living the Christian life. This is what He was telling us in Jeremiah 33:3. If we call to Him, and if we come to Him, and if we prayerfully and devotionally apply ourselves to learning about Him, He will reveal to us great, divine, spiritual mysteries that we did not know.
Tomorrow we will think a little more about how the revelation of mysteries happens but to close today, I want to share with you one of my all-time favorite observations about this marvelous adventure of spending a lifetime learning more and more about God. It comes from author Jim Peterson in his book “Lifestyle Discipleship”. Jim writes,
“One of the greatest gifts God has given us is the infinite opportunity for spiritual growth. But however much we have matured, there is always more beyond. It is in this that we find the adventure of living. There will always be new, unexplored dimensions of His person beckoning to us. The possibilities go off the chart.”
Spend some time this morning with God. Ask Him to reveal to you something new about Himself that you didn’t know before.
Oak Hill Baptist Church