To Him Are All Things

Rom 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Rom 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Rom 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Rom 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.


His ways PAST finding out. God's ways PAST finding out. We are so demanding, so selfish, we feel that we have the right to know everything. We don't want anything hidden from us. If we don't have proof we don't fall for things, right? We want to search out God's judgments, we want to find out God's ways. When we speak of faith we automatically mean that we won't have tangible proof. Faith the evidence of things NOT seen, the substance of things HOPED for.


With God we have to have faith, we have to believe without knowing his way, his judgments. Faith.


Rom 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.


Of Him...
Through Him...
To Him...

...are ALL things!


All things are God's and we cannot begin to understand the way He works. He knows all the ins and out and everything in between. We see a tiny picture, He sees the entire picture. He knows how things fit together, He sees far beyond any consequences for actions that we can imagine. Something could happen twenty years ago that impacts the future and while we are in the dark He is not. We have to understand that it is only by His grace we live. Some may detest that fact when their lives are filled with horrific pain and anguish and that's understandable- look at Job. We can't understand fully we can only hope and pray that in our lives God's will will be done, not ours. We have to hope that we choose Him first and foremost not forsaking Him no matter what comes our way. Is it all easy? No. But the trials and tribulations work to refine us for Him and that's what we have to hope that His will always is done whether we understand it or like it.


By the mercy and grace of our Lord and Savior who said His Father's will be done, may we live with Him one day fully knowing and known by Him. God's will be done always.


Amen.