WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT GOD? #6

THE JOY OF WORSHIPING AN INFINITELY WISE GOD - The Wisdom of

God - continued

Last week we considered the first point of this teaching on the wisdom of

God - God works all things with eternal ends in mind. Tonight we’ll

consider two more key truths about the wisdom of God:

2) WHENEVER GOD DOES ANYTHING HE HAS ALL THE FACTS

Unlike us, He never works with just part of the information. When He

deals with our lives, He knows the ideas in our heads and the motives

in our hearts. He knows where every single decision we make is going

to take us. We are transparent before Him:

Hebrews 4:13 - “And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all

are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give

account.”

This is amazing. In all that God does, He is able to take absolutely

everything into account. When God’s ways look unwise to us it’s

because, with our finite perspective, we never take all the facts into

consideration in any of our decisions. We do the best we can, but to

take everything into account lies far beyond possibility for us.

Now here’s the important question. Why does God tell us about His

wisdom. Why do the Scriptures praise this aspect of Father God so

vividly and repeatedly? And the answer is, it’s for us. We’re told this

about our God so we’ll remember how ludicrous it is to rely on our

assessment of our circumstances when God’s ways and ours don’t

line up.

3) THINK OF THE THREE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD WE’VE STUDIED

SO FAR

Think of the three attributes of God we’ve studied so far in this series.

Each one matters a great deal to all of us:

What if God weren't eternal? No matter how good He was He would

eventually wear out and die like the rest of us. And all His plans and

intentions would die with Him.

What if God weren't unchanging? What if one week He wanted to

redeem me but he next week He wanted to get even for all the bad

things I had done. What if one year He was merciful but the next

sadistic. Because He is an almighty God, who could stop Him if He

wanted to be cruel or mean with His fallen creation?

And what if God weren't infinitely wise? What if He was eternal and

unchanging but was constantly making huge, cosmic mistakes. Where

would we be this winter if He forgot to put oil and natural gas in the

ground. What if He just couldn't remember how to make the earth

grow food. Or send rain? Or what if He just couldn't figure out what to

do about my pride and sin?

I hope you can see how we benefit greatly from God being who He is.

This is the reason for glorying in our God. These truths, perhaps

more than any others, call for highest praise, deepest thought, and

joyful sacrifice.

I close with A.W.Tozer again: "With the goodness of God to desire

our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power

of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most

favored of all creatures."

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