The Mind of the Lord

This passage of Romans 11:33-34 reminds me of Job’s pondering and questioning of the Lord in Job 9 and the statement made in Isaiah 55:8-9.

The truth here is that God’s wisdom and knowledge are immeasurable. His judgments are unsearchable. And his ways are innumerable.

Yet, for all that, God has given us his words to prove or try our hearts as to whether or not we would at least “try” to obtain the riches of his wisdom and knowledge, search out his judgements, and find out his ways. We could either be committed to spending time in God’s words to find out the “mind of the Lord,” or we could complain because it’s “impossible.”

In Isaiah 55, Isaiah states the impossible, but then says that God’s word will “not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Verse 11). The more we spend time in God’s words seeking, searching, and studying; the more God will reveal of his mind in his time.

Afterall, Paul states in 1 Corinthians 2:16 that “we have the mind of Christ” and that mind is revealed in his words. Not only do we have his “mind on paper,” but we have his Spirit in us to reveal the mind of the Lord. As he says in verse 10, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit SEARCHETH all things, yea the DEEP things of God.”