"Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it...How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!" Psalm 139:4-6, 17
Ravi Zacharias once observed that although it is impossible to know God exhaustively, it is possible, even expected, that we may know God meaningfully. These verses, lifted from Psalm 139, serve to remind us of the nature of the Creator/creation relationship. Standing on the edge of the ocean, with the waves gently rolling over our feet, we cannot begin to fathom the depth or reach of the waters before us. But we are aware of the awe-inspiring spectacle that is the ocean. So it is with God. While we cannot, as David joyfully confesses, humanly comprehend the "vast sum" of our Creator, we can celebrate God knowing what we do know: God as he has chosen to reveal himself to us, chiefly through his son Jesus! Don't ever let our finite understanding of God inhibit your adoration and praise of him. David doesn't lament his lack of understanding the fullness of his Lord; he embraces his own limitations while glorifying the greatness of God. As we learn to know God in a meaningful way, let us also, in humble worship, celebrate that because he alone is God, we do not know him in an exhaustive way. And may we, like David, count that to be a good thing.
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