“Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.” (Job 42:3, NIV 1984).
My Musings – No one can go through the crucible like Job and come out unchanged, without a deeper understanding of the character and glory of God. Here are two such wonderful gems:
Someone to arbitrate – “[God] is not a man like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court. If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both, someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more. Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.” (Job 9:32-35, NIV 1984). Until Jesus was resurrected, it was “too wonderful for [anyone] to know.” Even today, sone 2000 years later, it is too wonderful to fully comprehend this outpouring of God’s grace upon sinful and rebellious mankind. Yet, “while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8, NIV 1984). And from the time that He ascended to the father, until He returns to claim the throne of His “father” David, “Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding [arbitrating] for us.” (Romans 8:34, NIV 1984).
Faint whispers – “And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?” (Job 26:14, NIV 1984). Consider the vastness of the universe that reaches far beyond our ability to see or explore. We see only the “outer fringes.” Or the intricacies of the sub-atomic world. The “outer fringes” of what possibly lie below, beyond the capabilities of most powerful transmission electron microscope to reveal. We are overwhelmed, yet how “faint [is] the whisper” that we hear. “When [we] consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him?” (Psalms 8:3-4, NIV 1984).
My Advice – “What may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” (Romans 1:19-20, NIV 1984). Even though we see only outer fringes and faint whispers.
There is much about God that may not be known, for it is “too wonderful for [us] to know.” But what may be known (through what has been made and through His Word), tells us plainly that “there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5, NIV 1984). To believe otherwise is inexcusable.
The Brew Is A Musing 