Things That Defy Understanding

          There are some things in life that will challenge your concept of understanding. I remember seeing a ship in a bottle. I was amazed as to how it got inside of the bottle. I never did know how the ship got into the bottle and I am sure that if you looked it up, one cold figure out how it took place. It amazed me to see one and it remained a mystery until recently when I looked it up and saw the simple solution. Now it isn't an item of wonder anymore. There are some things in life that are very difficult to understand and almost defy comprehension with our finite minds. I find that there are things in life that are difficult for me to understand yet I accept them because of faith. If a politician says something, I may really have doubts as to the validity of the statement. If God, on the other hand, says something, I accept what He says because of Who He is. Job 38:4-5 says, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?”

        Job had gone through some difficult things in his life and that is to put it mildly. I probably would have caved in early if I was in his life. Job's life is important to us because it shows his faith even though he did have some questions. After much talk between Job and his three friends, Job gets a personal interview with God. God mentions in the preceding verses the fact of words without knowledge. That pretty much sums up our problem. We have a lot of words without knowing what we are talking about and so we don't understand what is going on. When I think about the eternality of God, my mind seems to have a blocking point. When I think of the fact that God is eternal, or the concept of the Trinity, or the rapture of the believer, or the ascension of Christ or the magnitude of the payment of sins on the cross or the feeding of the 5,000 or of Christ walking on the water, I just can't seem to understand how it could possibly take place. These are the matters that I accept because of my faith in God Who did all of them. God's presentation to Job is a good example of not knowing something, but still accepting it as a natural thing. The uniqueness of snowflakes, finger prints, DNA, eyeball iris and such all point to the Creator, in other words, God Himself. Scientists sometimes refer to the orbit of the earth as the “Goldilocks orbit.” It is perfect. It is not too hot nor is it too cold. One degree either way wold make the earth barren and uninhabitable. It was all a part of God's design. We are safe today because of what God did in time past when He laid the foundation of the earth. While I may not understand how God did this or that, it still gives me hope in my daily life. Since God is eternal and since He laid the foundation of the earth, and since God is omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent, I can certainly trust Him for that which is going to take place today in my life. As Psalm 139 declares, He knows all there is to know about me from my getting up and down to every thought that is on my tongue. He knows my every sin and He knew how to make them go away. He sent His Son the Lord Jesus Christ to make the payment for my sins and for your sins and He paid the price for them all. I may not understand the far reaches of that act on the cross where sins could be paid for that were in the past, the present and the future, but I accept it anyway because Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished.” That's good enough for me. I am not going to ask, “How did you do it?” He did it and it is finished. Praise God today for His power. God does the impossible.