Thinking on the Unthinkable

I think the reason for much of our lack of faith comes from 2 things:

   1.  We do not think often on the greatness and infiniteness of God.  No attribute that He possesses has limitation.  All created things flow from and exist in Him.  He is called the Great I Am, and everything else is within Him.  He is boundless, limitless, and infinite. 

Paul speaks of God in this way:  God..."who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see..." (1 Timothy 6:16).  The book of Job tells of our absolute dependency on this infinite God:  "If He should set His heart to it and gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust."  (Job 34:14-15)

There are countless other Scriptures and examples of the infiniteness of God our Father and our utter dependence on Him.  The point is, we need to think on the infiniteness of Him and our complete dependence on Him.  If we were only to know the truth of the above verse in Job, that your being is wrapped up in His life-giving breath, perhaps we would not worry as much about our own lives.  He holds us.  And in this infinite Being of God is His love for us.

  2.  When we think about the Father, we often deceive ourselves by thinking that we can understand Him.  My first point, thinking on the infiniteness of God, is not so that we may grasp it, but so that we may understand more and more that the mind cannot grasp it.  And as we realize this, coupled with the the revelation of His infinite love for His children, we may be able to strengthen our faith in Him. 

Novatian wrote, "...all mental effort is feeble.  For God is greater than the mind... He is greater than all language, and no statement can express Him."  We cannot comprehend Him.  A created thing cannot overtake its Creator in any way.  So why think on it?  To learn our complete desperation and reliance on our great Heavenly Father.  When we fill our minds with the infiniteness of God, we may have faith when He says, "My ways are not your ways."   Then we may respond, "Yes, Lord, I will fix my trust in You, the great Unthinkable God."