God's Infinite Greatness

"Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!"
-Romans 11:33 (ESV)

Hopefully I am one of the few people who struggle with finding true and fresh expressions as I pray to God. I know that in our prayers we are to ascribe praise to God, but most of my expressions are ones that I have been saying for years. "God, I praise you for your grace." "You are the Victorious King!" and "You are sovereign" and "Glory to you for your love and justice." and "You are the Alpha and Omega." (to name a few) These are not false or unbiblical expressions, but they are limited. God is much more then the phrases that I ascribe to Him.

I just finished reading a chapter on "The Knowability of God" from Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology and was reminded that although we can know God truly we will never be at a point where God will be understood fully or exhaustively. At first that sort of disappointed me, but Grudem rightly described this doctrine of God's incomprehensibility and my disappointment turned to joy. "It means that we will never be able to know 'too much' about God, for we will never run out of things to learn about him, and we will thus never tire in delighting in the discovery of more and more of his excellence and of the greatness of his works."

If God could be figured out completely and fully then we might pursue other "gods" or objects of affection after we thought that we exhausted everything there is to know about God. Since we can never know too much about God we should joyfully examine the Bible and study often for the remainder of our lives. It is exciting to me that I can discover more truth about God and the greatness of all that He has done and will continue to do.

This relates to our songs that we sing, too. Earlier this week I wrote a "Reading Report" for a class I am currently taking in regards to a current issue on worship leadership. The article I picked was from Ross King's journal http://www.rosskingmusic.com and in it Ross urges worship leaders to stimulate their minds and write phrases and expressions that we really mean. He feels that through the repetition of always saying the same things we are losing the power of the words we are saying. "The real problem is that we are all-too-satisfied with the tiny little parts of God that we've been talking about for years, instead of constantly searching the Scriptures (and the mysterious Spirit inside of us!), looking for the attributes that we may have missed or misunderstood."

His journal, along with Grudem's book have encouraged me to search the Bible and seek to be fresh and biblical in my expressions to God. Let us never be misled into thinking we have figured God out completely. God's understanding is beyond measure and his greatness is unsearchable. Let us agree with Paul in Romans 11:33 who cannot contain his praise for God after writing some of the richest chapters in the Bible in regards to the history of God's great plan of redemption.

Glory to our great, immeasurable King!