…then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.
Ecclesiastes 8:17
It is impossible to fully know the mind of an almighty, all-wise, infinitely holy and eternal God. We will always be learning about Him… striving to know Him. We are given souls that live forever, but we are finite still and have a beginning. God has no beginning nor end. His mind always has been. And once He began His work it was impossible for created things to be greater than the Creator. We just have to accept that God exists, that He is in control of all facets of everything that is, and that He lives with us now and calls us to Him forever.
We cannot “find out the work” that God has done because it is all bound up in His eternal decree. We can accept it. We can believe what He reveals in the heavens and on earth. We can believe with the most clarity what He has revealed in His Word and in the Living Word, Jesus Christ. We can know God as He reveals Himself… but He will always be infinitely above us.
Faith simply abandons frustrating intellectualism in favor of satisfying worship when we accept this. We praise God and in faith trust God. We constantly exercise this by the work of His Spirit illumining scripture to us as we get glimpses of His glory at work in the universe and in our individual lives. In that way a rewarding quest is always our endeavor.
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