“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).
God is a being so far above us. We can never understand Him—can never even hope to comprehend how amazing He is. He has revealed Himself to us through His word and His actions, and from that we can glean rich testaments of who He is. But to truly understand Him? That is far too great for us!
Paul spends the majority of the book of Romans describing mankind’s fallen state, comparing it to God’s glory. He then explains how, even though people are hopeless, God Himself has become their hope. He has given Himself so that people might be made right with Him again. And thus, even through the horribleness of sin, God’s glory still shines, stabbing through the darkness with a brilliance that would not have been visible without the darkness of evil.
Not even darkness can stop the light of God.
Isn’t this the most incredible truth? The worst thing that could have happened to the world, did happen. We rebelled against our Creator. We broke His perfect world. We doomed ourselves to the blackness of a world without God, a world bereft of hope.
But God refused to let us stay there. He tore through the darkness, throwing Himself over it with all of His glorious light. Now we, His once broken but now beautifully remade people, can know Him in a special way. He has turned the greatest of evils into the greatest of glories.
Who is this glorious God? Who is this mighty warrior who fights against the greatest of foes with only a word and reigns victorious? Who is this loving Father who has delivered us from darkness and established us as citizens of His own never-ending kingdom?
“For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen” (Romans 11:36).
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