Job 11:7 “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Over the past few years, it has become more apparent that people like long stories. Examine the series that Netflix or Disney or others put out and you see, often, multi-part series that are themselves, part of another story. Many books are like this as well. When an author creates interesting characters, they tend to use them and explore them.
Job’s friend Zophar asks a rhetorical question. He fully expects that any thinking person will answer, “no.” You can’t fathom the mysteries of God! Some think they can, but they really cannot. If they could completely understand God, wouldn’t the roles have reversed? Wouldn’t they be God? God is unfathomable. He is beyond our understanding. He does what He will do. We’d like to understand, but often we just don’t and sometimes, we never will.
God is Almighty. He is all-powerful. We say He is omnipotent. He has the power to do whatever He will. There is no thing that He would want to do that He finds Himself unable to do. When we come to accept this truth about God, it often makes Him more difficult to understand. Why doesn’t He act to stop evil or end suffering? See? Unfathomable.
God knows His creation. He knew we would have questions because He is the One Who made us! He knew that we would benefit from a visual aid so He sent Jesus! Jesus came, among other reasons, to answer this very desire! We can so much more easily relate to Jesus. We can see Him act and begin to understand why He did what He did. Paul wrote to the Colossian church
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
If we want to know what God is like, we can look to Jesus. In the Bible we find the answers. The Bible will help us as we try to fathom the mysteries of God. The Bible will reward us with more and more knowledge and understanding of Who God is. The Bible is, I think, often the unknown inspiration for those multi-part, long, involved stories. That’s exactly what we have in Scripture. In fact, in the Bible we have 66 books that all point to one ultimate reality:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Blessings
Pastor Russ
