I will extol you, my God and King,
and bless your name forever and ever.
Every day I will bless you
and praise your name forever and ever.
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised,
and his greatness is unsearchable.
God’s greatness is unsearchable! Nothing else needs to be said. Mankind, of course, does not believe that statement. Mankind wants to put everything in a box of knowledge that THEY have figured out. Mankind likes to boast about their knowledge of God and how they have Him (or, Her) figured out in their mind. But, how can the think created understand the One who created him/her? God’s Word, however, maintains that God and His ways are, indeed, unsearchable. Note:
who does great things and unsearchable,
marvelous things without number …
Job 36:26 (ESV)
Behold, God is great, and we know him not;
the number of his years is unsearchable.
Isaiah 40:28 (ESV)
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
Romans 11:33 (ESV)
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Ephesians 3:7-8 (ESV)
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Yet, even though God is unsearchable, He has chosen to make himself known to us. In the Gospel of John we read several times that Christ came to make God known to us. John wrote his gospel that we might know God:
The High Priestly Prayer
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
God is unsearchable and to be praised for that mystery of who He is. Yet, He is also to be praised that God has decided to reveal Himself to us and make know to us aspects of that mystery.
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