NO ONE LIKE GOD
AN IMMEASURABLE WONDER

Paul—this brilliant thinker—is overwhelmed at the thought of God’s greatness as He considers it in Romans 11:33-36. He ecstatically utters, “Oh, the depth….” The Apostle is swept away. We ought to be!

Spurgeon, likewise a superior intellect, whose sermons are still read centuries after their delivery, declared, “The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of the child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.”

Paul has jumped into a boundless ocean of grace, and plunged into the lowest depth where the mercy of God reaches the vilest sinner, and marvels that God’s glory and love is an unfathomable sea. This is the experience of one who encounters God as He truly is, rather than a false God we design with our futile philosophy.

There is a point of penetrating the depths of the ocean beyond which a human cannot dive—the pressure becomes more than the body can stand. That is true in our understanding of God—we can go so far and no farther. God told Moses, “No man can see my face and live.” Our humanity would wither before the brightness of His full glory. It is inexpressible! It is immeasurable!

My son, Caleb, asked me the other day to imagine a color outside the spectrum of light. I would not have even thought to consider such a thing, but that is the way his mind works! I cannot envision a color like that, and neither can you. Thus it is with the immeasurable wonder of God. Our highest and noblest thoughts cannot imagine all that He is. He goes beyond that—far beyond. While I can’t fully come to grips in my head with all that He is, I can be gripped in my heart by the truth of His greatness! May it be so, for each of us today!

Be reminded:
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” (A.W.Tozer).