Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. (Job 11:7-9 ESV)
Depth
These words are preached at Job by one of Job’s friends: Zophar. It is popular to discount the words of Job’s advisors, but we should probably take their advice more seriously.
Here, for instance, Zophar is ALMOST correct. God is far beyond our comprehension. He is more, and better, and in fact, incomprehensible.
But the story does not end there.
Zophar asks, “Can you find out the deep things of God?” And we might think the answer is simply and resoundingly, “NO!!!!”
But the answer is actually, “YES!!!”
But only by clinging to the mystery of Christ Jesus. Only by believing Christ Jesus’ words. Only by the insertion of God Himself into Humanity, in other words, Immanuel.
Only by knowing Christ Jesus can we know God Himself.
And actually, EVERY mystery, every bit of incomprehensibility, every unknown part of the infinite, immortal, unchanging, unchangeable God is made known to us in Christ Jesus.
Put Jesus joyfully into every equation that puzzles you. Put Jesus firmly into every unsure aspect of God. Put Jesus, through faith, into every fear, every sorrow, every part of life you do not understand.
And He solves all of it.
No, every mystery is not made intellectually clear in this moment. But we WILL “see Him as He is.”
No, every mystery is not made intellectually clear in this moment. But more IS knowable than is left unknown.
No, every mystery is not made intellectually clear in this moment. But the depth of what we can know in Jesus, gives us faith and patience to wait for the rest.
Jesus is the necessary code-breaker for the Mystery of God Himself.
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