a bottomless well...
Romans 11:33
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
I think this is one of my new favorite verses. Throughout this semester and the last, the wisdom of God has been in the forefront of my thoughts and the more I have meditated on it, the more I understand and rejoice. Consider Solomon's description in Proverbs 8. In it, he extols the value of wisdom and goes on to describe its place in the creation of the universe. It seemed funny to me to equate something that always suggested making right choices in life (some would say it is the art of living skillfully) with the greater acts of setting the cosmos in order. Galileo said something to the effect that mathematics was the language with which God created the universe. The more I learn about the nature of electromagnetism (essentially the physics of electricity) and the ordered behavior of real numbers that accurately describe physical realities, the more I am convinced that this is so. How much more wonderful that this same intelligence is applied to the ordering of events in my life, each thing coming in its proper season and proper place. It confounds me that enough doubt remains not to trust Him.
At the end of the verse, Paul rejoices that the limits of this wisdom cannot be sounded and he will never know the fullness of it. This confused me until I thought of it in context of the first sentence. Paul has already found joy in learning of these depths and he rests assured that he will continue to know that joy as he searches them out without end for eternity. Let this be true of me as well.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
I think this is one of my new favorite verses. Throughout this semester and the last, the wisdom of God has been in the forefront of my thoughts and the more I have meditated on it, the more I understand and rejoice. Consider Solomon's description in Proverbs 8. In it, he extols the value of wisdom and goes on to describe its place in the creation of the universe. It seemed funny to me to equate something that always suggested making right choices in life (some would say it is the art of living skillfully) with the greater acts of setting the cosmos in order. Galileo said something to the effect that mathematics was the language with which God created the universe. The more I learn about the nature of electromagnetism (essentially the physics of electricity) and the ordered behavior of real numbers that accurately describe physical realities, the more I am convinced that this is so. How much more wonderful that this same intelligence is applied to the ordering of events in my life, each thing coming in its proper season and proper place. It confounds me that enough doubt remains not to trust Him.
At the end of the verse, Paul rejoices that the limits of this wisdom cannot be sounded and he will never know the fullness of it. This confused me until I thought of it in context of the first sentence. Paul has already found joy in learning of these depths and he rests assured that he will continue to know that joy as he searches them out without end for eternity. Let this be true of me as well.