The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
The Enigma of God"
”With all thy getting, get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7).
We cannot overemphasize the importance of engaging our minds to learn, especially the truth of God and His Word. “A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels” (Proverbs 1:5). We prayerfully ask for knowledge and understanding, read and ponder the Scriptures, fellowship with other believers, avail ourselves of good literature, and choose to expect that “the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day” (Proverbs 4:18).
Such response to truth notwithstanding, we begin and continue our search in the realization of mystery far beyond our capacity to solve, namely, the enigma of God Himself.
“The King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen” (I Timothy 6:15-16).
We seek that which transcends knowledge. We begin and continue our quest with both revelation and mystery as our guide. Indeed, the acknowledgment of that which can never begin to be fully known serves as a primary sensibility that prepares us for our quest to know.
Consider perhaps the simplest truth about our Lord. “God is one” (Galatians 3:20). Basic, to the point, and understandable. Unless… unless God also happens to be triune.
“Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father" (II John 1:3).
"Unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, o God, is forever and ever" (Hebrews 1:8).
"But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God" (Acts 5:3).
The simplest truth about God drives us to our knees in the awareness that His light is both illuminating and blinding. Indeed, the knowledge that “there is one God” may be the most elemental fact about Him we can know (I Timothy 2:5). His triunity, however, tells us that as we rightly “get understanding,” we do so in the deep humility that the more we know, the more we realize we cannot fully know (I Corinthians 8:2).
If “with all thy getting” we seek to know God and understand His truth, we will gratefully rejoice as His light shines upon and within us. With every ray of illumination, however, bewilderment will accompany our seeing. “Who is this that calls me to seek Him? How can He be who and what He is? How far past finding out are His ways? How can One only so pristinely holy in righteousness be so sublimely lavish in grace? And how is it that all discovery of His truth not only gloriously enlightens, but also shatteringly overwhelms? How? How? How?”
We will ask the questions forever. Indeed, even with glorified sensibilities, the infinite glory of God awaits to thrill us all the more because we will better understand that which can never be fully understood. Let us then seek “the unsearchable riches of Christ” (Ephesians 3:8). The more we find, the more we will know awaits to be found. The search begins or continues in this moment as we respond to our Lord’s beckoning to the light and the enigma…
“Call unto Me and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.”
(Jeremiah 33:3)
Weekly Memory Verse
Ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.”
(Romans 8:9)
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