Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it. – Psalm 139:6
One of the best and most frustrating things about God is that he knows things that we don’t. He not only knows things we don’t, he knows things we can’t. It is frustrating because we want answers to all our questions. When? How? Why? And many of these answers reside in God’s perfect knowledge that is too wonderful for us.
But this very thing that frustrates us is also immensely good for us. The psalmist doesn’t say that God is withholding knowledge from us. He isn’t keeping us down or keeping secrets. Rather he is omniscient and perfectly wise. He holds all truths for all time in his mind and directs them for our good in a way we never could.
So when we run into unsolvable questions that leave us asking “when?”, “how?”, and “why?” we can be confident that the answers lie in God’s wonderful knowledge. And we can rest in the surety that he is working for our good and His glory even if his means and his timing are beyond our understanding.
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