You Should Expect This Mystery

Romans 11:33-36

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When we consider the Triune God, sometimes it makes our minds hurt. It is a mystery how there can be three persons and yet one God at the exact same time. And for many people this bothers them because they can’t wrap their minds around it. How about you? How do you deal with these mysteries that we find in the Bible? Mysteries like the Triune God?

In God’s word, Saint Paul, he emphasizes how this isn’t something that should throw us off. It isn’t something that should surprise us. It’s something that we should expect from a God who is bigger and greater than we are. If he’s bigger and greater, more powerful than we are, well, then we should expect there are things about him that we just don’t understand that we can’t ever comprehend. And Paul emphasizes that in Romans Chapter 11, beginning in verse 33, he says,

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how untraceable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his adviser?” “Or who has first given to God that he will be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans 11:33-36 EHV)

God’s wisdom far surpasses our own. And that’s the kind of God that we want to have. We want a God who is bigger, smarter, wiser than we are. If we understood everything about God, well, that would mean that we are just as smart as God. And that would be scary because I know my limitations. I know that I’m not very smart. I want a God that understands things that I can’t understand, who sees things that I can’t see. I want to put my hope and my trust in him. And that’s what Christians do. So we don’t get thrown off when we come across these various mysteries that the Bible speaks about things that go beyond our understanding. We say Amen. God knows, and I trust in him.

This is the way God has always worked. Even the message of the Gospel itself goes beyond our understanding. Who are we to deserve what God gives to us? It’s incomprehensible how God would send His Son into this world to die for unworthy people. And yet that’s what God does. Glory be to God and for His plan. We put our trust in that plan. And we pray.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for your great wisdom that you shower forth in this world. Continue to guide us and lead us. Help us to put our trust in you. Even in these times when we might not understand what you were doing or these things about you. Help us to put our trust in you. Oh, Lord. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen.