Dr. Phil Giles -- Saturday July 18, 1998
We are not, any of us, big enough to really handle the great
truths of our faith. "Who is sufficient for these
things?"
Paul asks (II Corintians 2:16) and the answer is,
"None of us."
Elihu in Job says, "We cannot order our speech by
reason of darkness."
(Job 37:19)
It's like we're babies talking baby talk when it comes to GOD. We think we're making tremendous sense, but it comes out in heaven like, "Goo-goo... gabach... mumfrobo..."
And this is all the more so when we begin to speak about the person of Christ. He's just to big for our words.
The disciples saw him calmly do what 10,000 state-of-the-art, computer-generated, M.I.T.-trained geniuses are no closer to doing now than they were 100 years ago -- change a weather pattern by the sound of His voice.
It took us 6,000 years to come up with a light bulb. He created light in an instant without effort with the sound of that same voice.
Who is sufficient for such things?
Can anyone lift Him too high?
Unto which of all the thousands of saints who have died, unto Paul? -- Martin Luther? -- John Wesley? -- your grandmother? -- could it be said "that person has the keys of hell and death"? (Revelation 2:18) There's only one.
How can we dare to think we can comprehend such things?
Yet He reveals Himself to babes and sucklings (Matthew 11:25).
Is there any wonder that there are no end to the songs being written about Him? On top of the hundreds of thousands already written about Him -- there are hundreds more being written right now. What other name can boast of that kind of popularity? John Lennon once made the unfortunate statement that he and the Beatles were now more popular the Jesus Christ. (Hmmmm. I wonder how that will sound at the White Throne of Judgement.)
Though we dare not speak, yet we must, and yet we continue -- speaking, writing, singing about matters way over our heads.
We read theologians of by-gone eras and can easily see the holes and errors in their thought. How many more holes and errors are in today's sermons and tapes?
We are insufficient, but yet made sufficient because it is He that actually speaketh in our speaking!
We cannot understand one-tenth of what we utter, what we believe, but we utter and believein full confidence that though it may take an eternity (and it will!) to unravel our speach -- he is with us now and will be with us then to "guide us into all thruth." (John 16:13)
