Men of the greatest intellect cannot understand
the mysteries of Jehovah as revealed in nature. Divine inspiration
asks many questions which the most profound scholar cannot answer.
These questions were not asked that we might answer them, but
to call our attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach
us that our wisdom is limited; that in the surroundings of our
daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of
finite minds; that the judgment and purposes of God are past
finding out. His wisdom is unsearchable.
Skeptics refuse to believe in God because
with their finite minds they cannot comprehend the infinite power
by which He reveals Himself to men. But God is to be acknowledged
more from what He does not reveal of Himself than from that which
is open to our limited comprehension. Both in divine revelation
and in nature, God has given to men mysteries to command their
faith. This must be so. We may be ever searching, ever inquiring,
ever learning, and yet there is an infinity beyond.
"Who hath
measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And meted out
heaven with the span,
And comprehended
the dust of the earth in a measure,
And weighed
the mountains in scales,
And the hills
in a balance?
Who hath directed
the Spirit of Jehovah,
Or being His
counselor hath taught Him? . . .
Behold, the
nations are as a drop of a bucket,
And are accounted
as the small dust of the balance:
Behold, He
taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
"And Lebanon
is not sufficient to burn,
Nor the beasts
thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
All the nations
are as nothing before Him;
They are accounted
by Him as less than nothing, and vanity.
"To whom
then will ye liken God?
Or what likeness
will ye compare unto Him? . . .
Have ye not
known?
Have ye not
heard?
Hath it not
been told you from the beginning?
Have ye not
understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is He that
sitteth above the circle of the earth,
And the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers;
That stretcheth
out the heavens as a curtain,
And spreadeth
them out as a tent to dwell in. . . .
To whom then
will ye liken Me,
That I should
be equal to him?
Saith the Holy
One.
Lift up your
eyes on high,
And see who
hath created these,
That bringeth
out their host by number;
He calleth
them all by name;
By the greatness
of His might, and for that He is strong in
power,
Not one is
lacking.
"Why sayest
thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel,
My way is hid
from Jehovah,
And the justice
due to me is passed away from my God?
Hast thou not
known?
Hast thou not
heard?
The everlasting
God, Jehovah,
The Creator
of the ends of the earth,
Fainteth not,
neither is weary,
There is no
searching of His understanding.
He giveth power
to the faint;
And to him
that hath no might He increaseth strength.
Even the youths
shall faint and be weary,
And the young
men shall utterly fall:
But they that
wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength;
They shall
mount up with wings as eagles;
They shall
run, and not be weary;
They shall
walk, and not faint."
Isaiah 40: 12-31, A. R. V.