Did you know we know very little about God? Job 25-26

Job 26:14 (NASBStr)

“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;

And how faint a word we hear of Him!

But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”

Have you ever notice the words, phrases and grammatical structure of Biblical writers when they have come across a great truth about God?   Notice Paul in his word choices after explaining and teaching about God's call and election in Romans 9-11:

Romans 11:33-34 (NASBStr)

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?

We don't have space to record all of it now, but re-read the first chapter of the letter to the Ephesians.  That entire first chapter is almost just one sentence on the amazing greatness and awesome reverence for God's eternal plan.     In Exodus 33:18-23 we see the story of Moses wanting to see the glory of God and God putting him in a cave in the rocks, sheltering him so that he can only see the back side of God.  If he were to see the full glory of God it would be death.   

In the above passage we see Job declaring back to his friends an amazing truth about God.   Job has acknowledged some great aspects of God's character and power and then, in a closing left-jab to his friends he declares these great and tall truths are but a mere fringe of who God is and what we know about Him.   Imagine see the Grand Canyon and having someone walk up and tell you compared to what they are about to show you that canyon is but a ditch on the side of the road.  That is what Job is doing to his friends.   Or, imagine you were on the moon and saw the amazing sight of the earth.  You might be spell bound to see the earth floating through space that way.  But, then someone tells you to turn around and you see the amazing sight of hundreds of planets and thousands of moons.   The earth would pale in comparison.  This is the truth of what we know about God.   We see but the fringe.   Even John's awesome description of God in the Book of the Revelation, despite its grandeur, is only a picture of the hem of God's true gown of glory.   We think we can put God in a box and understand Him and declare His greatness.   We sing praises to what we know and we know nothing as compared to who He really is and His GREAT GLORY.   We hear only a "faint" word, yet it screams so loud we are deaf from the sound.   We hear a "thunder" of a sound to illustrate His power, yet know nothing of the real strength and awesome storm of His true sovereign strength.