Secret and Unsearchable Things

The past year and a half or so, I've been working on several articles, each of which involved biblical questions without a completely satisfying answer. In fact most of these questions have been debated for centuries. This is not surprising in that, a deity of whom we could completely comprehend would not be much of a god. Of course, the true and living God is not like that. The late Ravi Zacharias once opined that, God revealed to us enough information to come to him, but not so much information that we could get by without faith.

Deuteronomy 29:29 tells us that, The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

This was hammered home to me time and again as I attempted to work on these articles for a time, then get frustrated, back off for a while, and finally attempt to look at them from a different perspective, then rinse and repeat. During these projects, I felt much like Job must have when questioned by the Lord Almighty in Job chapters 38 through 41. I was also constantly reminded of a number of verses:

Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit (Ps 147:5).

Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. (Ps 145:7).

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. (Is 40:28).

Another one that entered my mind quite often was Isaiah 55:8-9, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

My number one go-to verses when I run into “unsolvable” obstacles remains the Doxology in Romans 11:33-36:

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and i knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Recently, I finally published the articles linked below:

Could Jesus Have Sinned when He took on a Human Nature?

The Sovereignty of God and the Free Will of Man

The Sovereign Power of God - Historical Development of the Doctrine

Who was Melchizedek? His Identity and Importance