0720. The Unfathomableness of the Word

The Unfathomableness of the Word

"To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?" (2Co_2:16).

Every book that man has written can be fathomed, but the simplest statement of the Word of God, presents a depth and a height and a length and a breadth that is ever revealing new wonders of truth. The reaches of the Bible are beyond the grasp of the human mind.

"The natural man receiveth not the things of God." "The eye hath not seen, the ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered the heart of man," the wonders of the wonderful Word.

Its riches are inexhaustible.

Its wisdom is uncomprehendible.

Its marvels are unfathomable.

The wisest man of the world cannot, apart from the Spirit of God, grasp the simplest statements of the grace of God. The Cross of Christ is to the Jew a "stumbling block" and to the Greek, "foolishness."

The men who wrote the Bible never fathomed the Bible. "Holy men of God searched the Scriptures diligently seeking to understand what time, or manner of times, the Spirit of God that was upon them, did signify, when He testified beforehand, of the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow."

When we think that we have at last struck bottom in some gracious passage, like Joh_3:16, suddenly, new illuminations come and new realms of truth, filled with the rhythmic cadence of another world burst upon us, which thrill the soul with worshipful wonder.

Oh, wonderful, wonderful Word of the Lord,

Inexhaustible treasures doth hold;

And only the Spirit Who sent forth its truths,

Its marvelous depths can unfold.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR