God: Incomprehensible

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  1. And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
  2. You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
  3. The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
  4. Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.
  5. Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? …
  6. Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
  7. “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place. …
  8. He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
  9. Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
  10. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
  11. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance? …
  12. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
  13. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
  14. “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.