Understanding God

Isaiah 40:28 "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding."

I know from my own stand point that there have been, and still are, numerous times that I have found myself "Trying" to understand just what God was doing or thinking in a given situation. This passage of scripture clears up my "Mis-guided" thinking. Isaiah says here that there is NO searching of His "Understanding". What does this actually mean?

I began to do some digging in the Bible and this is what I found.

Job 11:7-9 "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea."

No one can fully understand God! No one can fully understand the perfection of God , or even His ways. I do however believe that by reading The Bible we can learn as much as we need to know so that we can be satisfied that God in His Wisdom, His Goodness, His Mercy, Grace and Truth IS, in fact, in complete control in our lives!

Isaiah 41:20 "That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it."

In this passage, verses 10-20 show us "Why" God does what He does. Here God is telling Israel through the Prophet Isaiah that He (*GOD) IS going to deliver them from their enemies and He will also meet all of their needs. Even though Israel does not think that it is possible, God tries to encourage them to believe Him. After this encouragement we come to verse 20 where God saya that He wants Israel to "See", to "Know", to "Consider" and then to "Understand"!

The same thing applies to you and I today who are Born Again Children of God. He (*God) wants us to realize that even when we think He cannot reach us, He cannot solve our particular problem, or it is just TOO MUCH FOR EVEN GOD!

You say, "No one would ever say that anything was too much for God to handle." I've got news for you... it happens everyday! When we reach the end of ourselves, when we have tried to solve the problems by our own means and come up short, we usually just give up and sink down into self pity.

When what "WE OUGHT TO DO" is:

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  "See" that God is there to help us no matter what we may think. (*Numbers 6:26 "The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.")


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  "Know" that God, The Holy One of Israel, IS the same God that we serve! (*Isaiah 45:5 "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:")


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  "Consider" what God can do... He can do EVERYTHING! (*Psalms 40:5 "Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.")


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  "Understand" The answer is already on the way! (* Daniel 10:10-14 "And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.")

I know that there is absolutely no way that I could, in just a few short words, adequitely explain in detail the method or means by which you, myself or anyone else, for that matter, could COMPLETELY grasp the total concept of "Understanding God".

It really just boils down to this... God IS here! God CAN do anything! God WILL take your burden! God HAS made a way of escape! God STILL Saves!

I hope that this will in some small way encourage you to do some digging on your own, and NEVER stop trusting and believing that He CAN and WILL do just exactly what He said He would do!

Stay before The Lord in all you do!

Brother Dunn