This week we continue our treasury thinking under the title of ‘Beyond Riches!” Our first verse of the week comes from Paul’s letter to the Romans (11:33) “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and his paths beyond tracing out!”
People love to solve mysteries. Whether it’s figuring out a ‘who-done-it novel’ or solving a complicated riddle, we love to try to figure out mysteries. You may remember the TV show “Treasure Hunt" where a team of two contestants in the studio had to use a library of maps and reference materials to solve up to five clues, and communicate instructions via a radio link to a skyrunner who had the use of a helicopter in screech of the treasure. Although viewers could see the skyrunner, the contestants could not, and all communication between them was by sound only. Their knowledge was limited.
There are many who seek and search yet never grasp what they are looking for. The irony is that while humankind has been so busy searching for God, God has been searching for humankind. The former is futile and the latter is essential to faith.
An astronomer was lecturing a group in France, and declared, “I have swept the universe with my telescope, and I find no God.”
A musician appropriately rebuked the astronomer: “Your statement, sir, is as unreasonable as it is for me to say that I have taken my violin apart, have carefully examined each part with a microscope, and have found no music.”
C. S. Lewis once wrote, “To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere. Those who do not find him on earth are unlikely to find him in space. (Hang it all, we’re in space already; every year we go a huge circular tour in space.) But send up a saint in a spaceship and he’ll find God in space as he found God on earth. Much depends on the seeing eye.”
Creator God, we stand in awe of all that you have made. Fill our hearts with gratitude for every good gift, great and small, that feeds and forms us, inviting and enabling us to become people who are fully alive in your amazing grace. AMEN.
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