January 2, 2013 Vast and Personal

Vast and Personal Job 11:5-6 How I wish God would answer you! 6 He would tell you there are many sides to wisdom; there are things too deep for human knowledge. God is punishing you less than you deserve. DO YOU want to know everything? I do. I want to know everything about the things that interest me. I want to be an expert on life, and I’d love to be an expert on God. I want to know exactly what he’s up to and why he’s “up to it”. Or wait a minute. Do I really? If I knew all about God, I don’t think I’d honor him and worship him as much as I do. If I knew why God caused that storm, or why that person died on the mission field, or why I’m blind, or why my brother’s blind or why “everything that is, “is”, I don’t think I could separate God from the world. Did you ever think someone was really cool—he or she was kind of mysterious? Then you had the opportunity to meet that person and to get to know them as a “real” person? Somehow he or she is not quite as “up there” as before you knew them, are they? They become real, and you see them in all their humanity. If God is who he says he is, and I fully believe he is Creator of the world, Savior of Sin and Spirit of Truth—to name a few—we cannot completely know him. Job’s friend is right, there are things to deep for human knowledge. Be glad in that. Rejoice your God is above your understanding. Understand, too, that in all his knowledge, he will take care of you. It’s True! God is beyond your total knowing, and God is very, very personal.