God: Greater than Our Understanding

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.

In the Bible, God is presented as One who is far more than our understanding can every fathom, imagine, or allow:

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55: 9-10)

In fact, God took a stern and serious tone with one believer who presume to question God and glory in his limited integrity:

"Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

"Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

"Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding." (Job 38: 1-4)

The above four samples is just an inkling of the "harangue" that God released upon His servant Job.

Yet God reveals Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, His blessed Son:

"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (2 Corinthians 4: 4)

But Paul the apostle writes far more about our blessed Savior, a God who is far beyond our understanding:

"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

"And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." (Colossians 1: 15-17)

This revelation of Jesus Christ must be accepted by faith, just like our salvation (Ephesians 2: 4-8)

And not only does God manifested in our lives exceed our understanding, but what He wants to do in our lives also exceeds our capacities:

"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

"Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." (Ephesians 3: 20-21)

AA, like many believers in the Body of Christ, have too small a conception of God -- and it will take an eternity and a day to take in even a fraction of a part of God and His love for us, manifested at the Cross forevermore!