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God's Thoughts

April 14, 2009

Psalm 92:5 – “How great are your works , O Lord, how profound Your thoughts!”

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hear the “thoughts” of God? You think about all the incredibly deep, intellectual thinkers that this world has ever known, and then realize that God gave them their intellect out of his own. The mind of God completely dwarfs anything that we could ever appreciate or comprehend.

I guess when you think about it, every time we even try to, in our own minds, understand the nature of God, we are forced by our own limited mental capacity to reduce God down something we can understand, something we can process. We call Him “Father,” yet we only understand the “Father nature” of God to a certain point…when the truth is God is infinitely more the perfect father than we could ever imagine. We call Him “Saviour” without ever knowing the depth of what His sacrifice really did for us….

Truly we cannot actually even begin to fathom the reality of who God is….

I think that C.S. Lewis said it best when he wrote this little paragraph, and titled it “A footnote to all Prayers”

Footnote to All Prayers

He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow
When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou,
And dream of Pheidian fancies and embrace in heart
Symbols (I know) which cannot be the thing Thou art.
Thus always, taken at their word, all prayers blaspheme
Worshipping with frail images a folk-lore dream,
And all men in their praying, self-deceived, address
The coinage of their own unquiet thoughts, unless
Thou in magnetic mercy to Thyself divert
Our arrows, aimed unskilfully, beyond desert;
And all men are idolators, crying unheard
To a deaf idol, if Thou take them at their word.

Take not, O Lord, our literal sense. Lord, in thy great
Unbroken speech our limping metaphor translate.

I think that the Psalmist made an understatement when he called the thoughts of God “profound.”

Yet today Lord, my simple prayer is that you would give me some sort of insight into your thoughts…your thoughts which are so much higher than mine…would you grant me even a sliver of your wisdom this day.

On the Journey,

Brian <><

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