Beyond Comprehension

December 15

(Psalm 139:17-18 NIV) How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! {18} Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.”

(Isaiah 55:6-9 NIV) ““Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. {7} Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. {8} "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. {9} "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.””

God is omniscient. He knows everything there is to know. God is also infinite. This means that there is no limit to His knowledge. When David says that God’s thoughts outnumber the grains of sand, he is barely scratching the surface. The mind of God is beyond comprehension. No super-computer could hold His thoughts. Nothing can compare to the knowledge of our Lord. As we look into deep space from earthbound telescopes, we are seeing light that is billions of light years away and billions of years old. This speck of a planet we live on is like our minds. The vast, seemingly infinite, universe is like the mind of God. This truth alone should cause us to seek the Lord. We have a God with infinite knowledge who wants us to know Him. Why would we not want to know as much as humanly possible about a God like this? God must wonder the same thing at times. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day