“For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” —Isaiah 55:9
When it comes to spiritual and theological truths, we often try and figure out things that can’t be figured out. But we don’t have to understand all the deep things of God or all about post-modern thought and philosophy in order to be an effective servant of the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon said it’s like a little child who is “fretting and kicking in its nurse’s arms because it cannot get the Atlantic into the hollow of its hand. . . . Yet a child might sooner hold the Atlantic and Pacific in its two hands, without spilling a drop, than you and I will ever be able to hold all revealed truth within the compass of our narrow minds.” 1
God’s truth is infinite. Our minds are these tiny things fabulously made by God. We can’t begin to comprehend His vastness. We still need to keep searching, exploring, and digging but with the realization that we will never understand it all.
1 Charles Spurgeon, “The Weaned Child,” The Spurgeon Center, accessed April 25, 2024, www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-weaned-child/#flipbook/.
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“How to Have a Quiet Heart (Psalm 131)” (Revive Our Hearts series)
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Ask God to give you insight into spiritual truths that can be understood and a trust in Him for those that can’t.