Romans 11:33: "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and inscrutable are His ways!"
When I hear people diminish God or caricature Him as some grumpy old man telling the unrepentant sinners to keep of His lawn, I am often filled with a mix of laughter and sadness. Laughter at the absurdity of this thought and sadness at the heart content thereof. It is, after all, remarkably common to think of God as something or someone other than God. But it is just that, a misconception of the highest order.
If we have a low view of God it is not because God is less than He is; it is merely because we cannot humble ourselves enough to accept the reality of a God beyond our understanding. If we could perfectly categorize and decipher God, then we can be sure that we are no longer talking about God at all but are only referring to our vain conceptions of God.
But God is beyond our evaluative powers of categorization. He is holy, meaning not only that He is absolutely pure but also that He is not like us. We should, then, not be satisfied with mere caricatures of a limited, anthropomorphic God. He is the Holy Lord Almighty. Let us then always keep this proper perspective in our praise to the God who is!
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