Waist Deep 2018 - March 10


Job 11: 7, 8 “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the almighty?  They are higher than the heavens – what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave – what can you know?” (NIV)


His grace exceeds the largest dimensions known to man.*


No. No. Nothing. Nothing. I’m sure that Zophar’s questions were meant rhetorically, but those are the answers.

My freshman year in college was not the most disciplined period of my life. I recall one night when my roommate and I were supposed to be studying for a big test the next day. We had made an attempt to study but we came to the point where we agreed that we had way more material to study than we could possibly comprehend so there was no point in studying at all. I don’t remember how that worked out for us, but I can see how one could get that same overwhelmed feeling when contemplating the mysteries of God. Aren’t we sometimes tempted to write him off completely just because we don’t understand him completely?

In Philippians 3: 15 and 16, Paul sums up the discussion begun in previous verses: “And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. Only let us live up to what we have already attained.” God will reveal as much of himself as he wants me to know at the rate that I am prepared to know it and apply it.

 I am thankful that my salvation doesn’t depend on how much I understand, but why wouldn’t I want to soak up as much knowledge of God as I can? Getting into God’s Word is like mining for gold! Though we will never deplete the rich deposits in this mine, every day’s digging adds to our stockpile of wealth!


The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of the Bible. The more deeply he works the mine, the richer he finds the ore.*


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