Incomprehensible!

It Is Incomprehensible That We Should Fully Grasp The Mind Of God

The human brain can contain only so much information before it is overloaded and information becomes incomprehensible. When the brain does get overloaded, it may feel as if smoke is rising off of it. Some things can easily be understood, while others may be too complicated. Some things the human mind just cannot fully grasp. One concept incomprehensible to the human mind, that we fail to fully grasp, is God.

Paul said He is able to “do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).” God can do so much more than what we can even think of. After all, He created us! He gave us our minds! Our knowledge is nothing compared to that of God. Paul also said, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! ‘For who has known the mind of the LORD (Romans 11:33-34)?’”

It is indeed impossible to know the mind of God. He is incomprehensible. However, even though we cannot think like Him, He can think like us. Jesus, God in the flesh (John 1), came to be just like all of us. Jesus walked like us and talked like us, yet He did not sin. Through Him, we can know more about God. “’For who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).”

By having the mind of Christ, we can begin to think like Him. When we put on Christ in baptism, we are to be transformed by renewing our minds (Ephesians 4:23; Romans 12:2). We become more like Him because we think more like Him. We are to “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5).” Let us think less like ourselves, and think more like Christ!