Thankful in the unfathomable

     From today's Daily Light: "Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered." (Ps.40:5)
     And--"Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgements and His ways past finding out! (Rom11:33)
     Aren't you thankful God's ways and thoughts are so much deeper and greater and mysteriously past fully understanding than ours?  Seriously if our puny minds could completely plumb the unfathomable depths of God's ways and thoughts, well, then how big could God be?  No!  I'm thankful there is such a vast expanse of all I do not comprehend.  Such a infinitely deep reservoir of the inscrutable and profound... but always ultimately good, pleasing and perfect will and ways of God. (Rom.12:2)
     Sometimes we grow frustrated or even furious when we cannot figure out what on earth God is doing. Why is He allowing this?  When will He end this?  What does He mean by this in His Word?
     But at those times, it helps to remember that we cannot see the full, broad picture... only God can.  We cannot understand all the infinite number of patterns that God is weaving at the same time that will ultimately result in an astoundingly magnificent tapestry.  We just glimpse the disorganized and disheveled back of the tapestry... only God sees the front.  Only He knows and perfectly plans the glorious end result--the masterpiece that He is weaving.
     We are finite and frail and prone to fluctuating feelings... only God is infinite and almighty and forever changeless in His righteousness and love and grace.
       So in that gap between what we know and what we struggle to understand, there is Almighty God who is so much bigger and greater and wiser and stronger and higher and holier than anything we could ever begin to comprehend.  And in that gap, rather than frustration, there should be thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving in the unutterable, unfathomable greatness and glory of our Lord.
     And thanksgiving because this reminds us that we are just passing through.  This is not our home.  But one day we will fully understand.  One day we will fully see.  One day we will fully rejoice.  And one day we will fully Live. 
     Until then, might we be thankful in the God who is so massive, so awesome, so gloriously great and huge that we will never exhaust Him, never come to the limits of His infinite resources, and never completely comprehend Him.
      To the Great and Glorious God, who was and is and is to come, be all the glory.