“To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? … To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.” Isaiah 40:18, 25
I am amazed by my cell phone. These ubiquitous mobile devices have become so common that few marvel any longer at what they do.
I can receive a telephone call while standing in the middle of the wilderness;
I can speak to my daughter as she speeds (as a passenger) along the interstate;
My wife can send me a shopping list as I walk into the grocery store;
I can see pictures from the other side of the world a few moments after they’re taken;
I can surf the internet while flying through the air (not that I have ever done that).
Cell phones really are phenomenal. Yet, I don’t know how they work. I understand that sound, images, and data are transformed into 1’s and 0’s and then transmitted via radio waves through the air.
There are an untold amount of unseen waves that are passing through us at this very moment. We are surrounded by the waves containing the explanations of a people’s day. We are awash in all sorts of unseen information every moment of our existence. However, we would be oblivious to it all if it were not for our little devices that translate this unseen world.
Modern Cowboy, Talks on His Cell Phone (Photo credit: Lance and Erin)
I am very thankful to the people who invented my cell phone and all the associated technology because I am not able to build a cell phone. The technology is beyond me. In fact, I accept their explanation of how my cell phone works. I have taken physics classes and understand radio waves but I don’t have a clue of how to practically get sound to be transmitted in a way that can neither be seen nor heard. I really have no personal evidence that my voice actually flies through the air on a wave after I speak into my phone. I believe what I am told.
Biking and Talking on Cell Phone… (Photo credit: MyEyeSees)
In fact, I think that there are very few who know how a cell phone actually works but that has not stopped 6 billion of us from using them. How many of these 6 billion people do you think have the knowledge to construct a cell phone and its appurtenances from scratch? Probably, only a minuscule percentage has that sort of knowledge. Yet, billions of people pick up their cell phones every day and make calls. They will dial numbers into their mobile devices and expect the calls to go through. They use their cell phone because they don’t have to know how it actually works. Consider the depths of God and how vastly more complicated are His works. God transcends my understanding beyond any lack of knowledge about technology. I might be able to figure out how to build a cell phone but I am incapable of figuring God out on my own.
How can I?
What are the implications of being beyond time?
How can He be in all places at the same time?
What is it like to hold all knowledge?
What does it take to create something out of nothing?
How can physical properties change with a spoken word?
All of those attributes of God are beyond my comprehension. Therefore, I am incapable of figuring Him out. The only way for me to know God is for Him to show Himself to me.
Many refuse to believe in anything that cannot be confirmed by science or their own eyes. Often, they believe what they are told about how the world works yet they never confirm anything on their own. They accept the explanations of those who know how the physical world works.
What about when the explanation of the workings lies beyond the understanding of this world?
How can we know how God’s world really works? There is no one on this earth who knows that. That knowledge can only come from God. He has to show us.
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Isaiah 40:13-14
Fortunately, God has revealed Himself to us through His Word. He has not shown us everything. I still have a lot of questions about how things actually work but apparently I don’t need those answers. We have been given what we need to come to Christ in faith. Just like we don’t need to know how our cell phones work to use them, we don’t need to know all the answers to how God works.
We will never have all the answers.
We must come to Christ realizing there is a level of understanding that is simply beyond our comprehension. We still must make a decision to receive Jesus Christ as our personal savior and Lord. We have been give sufficient knowledge for that decision. Therefore, our first step is to give up on our own understanding and cry out to Him. Call upon Christ without worrying about how that works. He will answer. He always does.
And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. Isaiah 42:16
PRAYER: Lord, help me to accept that there are some things that I can’t understand. Help to accept what you have given me to understand. Lord, keep me in the Truth that You have given to us so that we may know You. Give me discernment to recognize what is of You and what is a fabrication of our enemy and man. Lord, keep me from straying from your Word. I pray this in the precious name of your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
A DEVOTED LIFE 