The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"The Mind and the Heart"
"His understanding is infinite… the love of Christ passeth knowledge" (Psalm 147:5; Ephesians 3:19).
We marvel at the mind of God, which created a universe wondrously vast and complex beyond all imagining, including "the fearfully and wonderfully made" human race of which we are a part (Psalm 139:14). Every day brings new discoveries of both the magnitude and the infinitesimal nature of all things. Whether we journey into the atom or the far reaches of the cosmos, wonders await in the creation, but far more, in the Creator who made all things by merely speaking. Moreover, He sustains all things "by the word of His power," revealing the necessity of God's ongoing administration of His infinite understanding (Hebrews 1:3).
We marvel even more at the heart of God, that is, His character and nature for which no words have been devised to adequately describe. We best view this light, both blinding and illuminating, by journeying along the dark and bloody path to Calvary.
"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:6-8).
Words fail - or again, fail to even exist - that enable us to adequately think or verbalize the nature of the heart that would do what God has done toward a race of the rebellious. Indeed, it is one thing that "peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die." But what of a God who dared send His Son not only to the death of the cross and the wrath of man, but to the cauldron of His fury and righteous judgment against sin? What of a God who "hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin?" (II Corinthians 5:21). What of a God who "hath put Him to grief," referencing not the sinner who rejects Him, but the beloved Son in whom He is eternally "well pleased?" (Isaiah 53:10; Matthew 3:17). Let us all make it personal. What of a Heart who "so loved the world" and who so loved me with a devotion of unimaginable grace and mercy? "(John 3:16). No, words have not been formed whereby we can think or speak in a manner adequate to ponder or proclaim the heart of God. Nor will such words ever exist.
The Bible never offers an explanation for the love of God. It simply declares the glorious reality, calling us to be both blinded and illuminated by that which "passeth knowledge." Some things we best know by acknowledging we cannot know. Both the mind and the heart of our Lord best confirm this truth, the former a marvel, the latter beyond a marvel. No explanations suffice. And thereby, we blessedly find the best explanation of the Mind and the Heart.
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
(I John 4:10)
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of God?"
(Romans 11:33-34)
Weekly Memory Verse
"He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water."
(John 7:38)
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