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Incomprehensible

"Oh the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!   How unsearchable are His judgements and unfathomable His ways!   For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?   Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to Him again?   For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.   To Him be the glory forever.   Amen." ~Romans 11:33-36~ "I will extol You, my God, O King, and I will bless Your name forever and ever.  Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable ." ~Psalm 145:1-3~ "Great is our Lord and abundant in strength;  His understanding is infinite. " ~Psalm 147:5 Consider with me for a moment the bigness of these words describing my God. Unsearchable. Unfathomable. Abundant. Infinite. This God I serve is so huge that ...

Infinite

Yesterday some young ladies from church and I started a study on the book titled,  None Like Him  by Jen Wilkin. Each chapter talks about an attribute of God that He alone has- meaning we don't share it. In the introduction, Wilkin gives us her goal for the book, "In the pages that follow, I want us to consider the majesty of a limitless God.  I want us to meditate on his perfections so that they become to us the most rational object of our reverence and awe.  And along the way, I want us to stare down our tendency to ask others and even ourselves to be what only God is.  Life is too short and too precious to spend fearing the wrong things in the wrong ways.  I propose we learn holy fear for a God like no other." Amen.  As we go through this study, I'm going to attempt to post each week some thoughts on the attribute we're studying that week.  Please feel free to leave your own thoughts and questions in the comments...I'd love fo...