Unsearchable
Unsearchable
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.
Psalm 145:3
Our God is too big to be contained in facts, formulas, or finite minds. Trying to explain Him is like a child trying to lecture about quantum physics to his classmates at preschool. If we could comprehend the infinite God and pack Him up within our soggy brains, He would not be eternal, illimitable, and transcendent. If we could remove the mystery of God, He would not be God after all. As theologian Wayne Grudem wrote, “It is spiritually healthy for us to acknowledge openly that God’s very being is far greater than we can ever comprehend.”a
Another scholar, Henry Morris, adds an important point. Speaking of the person of God, he says, “We cannot really comprehend this with our minds, but we can believe it and rejoice with our hearts.” The characteristics of God cannot be fully known by our limited understanding; we just know He is mighty, merciful, and full of majesty.
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
EVELYN UNDERHILLb
a Wayne A. Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994).
b Quoted in Elizabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms (Grand Rapids, MI: Revell, 2002), 91.
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