Have you ever over analyzed something? Tried to figure something out that was simply beyond your ability to comprehend? I have.

I remember as a kid trying to figure out how God could have always existed. My finite little mind went back as far as it possibly could until my brain hurt! But try as I might, I could not understand how God could have no beginning and no end.

People don’t always like that kind of God. We tend to want to put Him in a box and form Him into a figment of our own making. The Old Testament speaks of the foolishish of men who would cut down a tree and then start a fire with some of that wood to cook their meal. Then from that same tree, they would carve an idol to bow down to. What kind of god is that?

Psalm 145 verse 3 states: “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable (beyond our understanding).”

There are a lot of things that I personally don’t get. Take a car’s engine, for instance. My husband can tell you all about pistons and rotors and intake valves and spark plugs, whereas I’m just happy if I can get behind the wheel and the thing runs. He understands about changing the oil every 3000 miles. If he hadn’t told me that, I would run the car until the engine died, never knowing the difference.

My inability to understand the inner workings of a car’s engine does not mean that engine does not exist or that someone else doesn’t understand it better than I do. It simply means that I don’t know everything, and there are things out there that are bigger than I am.

In a similar way, a lot of people don’t get that God is truly great, that He created the heavens and the earth, that His Word (the Bible) is truly His Word and He intends to keep it. Rather than accepting what He says about Himself (and He’s the only one who truly knows), and believing in the many wondrous works He’s done, they want to pretend the He doesn’t exist.

But just because something is beyond our understanding, does not mean we should toss it out as either nonexistent or unworthy of our attention.

It just means that human beings don’t know as much as they’d like to think.