The most recent chapters I’ve read in Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem was the Existence of God and the Knowability of God. These were short, but so sweet, chapters to read because they highlight how infinite God is, just infinite our knowledge pool is in relation to Him and also just how limited and finite we are in knowing all about God.

Some may see that as a bad thing. Well, if I can’t know all about God, why bother at all? Because don’t we want to know all the facts? I heard not long ago that perfectionists want to know it all, they want to know they can do something fully before they do it or they don’t do it at all. I feel that way at some things, and I do think I am a perfectionist most of the time (shrug), but with God, this is an encouragement!

We will never, in our lives on earth or in Heaven, know all the things about God. We won’t know the whys and hows. Its not our job to know. He’s God.

How is this an encouragement then?

The very existence of God is evidenced by His creation. Everything He created whispers His very character. There’s so much that we’re learning still about just some of what He created. So much left undiscovered or unrevealed.

Who reveals His creation? God does! God chooses to whom and at what time He reveals details of Himself to us. Every day is an opportunity to tear away another layer of knowledge when it comes to our God.

I love that every day that we choose to spend the time fellowshipping with God, we have the opportunity to learn something new and have something revealed by our loving Father who cares so deeply and knows us so intrinsically that He reveals things just when we need them.

When we choose this special time with God, we’re choosing to experience a joy in the journey of learning and growing, while also choosing to experience a delight in the Lord just as He delights in us.

we will never be able to know “too much” about God, for we will never run out of things to learn about him, and we will thus never tire in delighting in the discovery of more and more of his excellence and of the greatness of his works.

Even in the age to come, when we are freed from the presence of sin, we will never be able fully to understand God or any one thing about him. This is seen from the fact that the passages cited above attribute God’s incomprehensibility not to our sinfulness but to his infinite greatness. It is because we are finite and God is infinite that we will never be able to understand him fully.? For all eternity we will be able to go on increasing in our knowledge of God and delighting ourselves more and more in him.

~Wayne Grudem

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3‬:‭11‬ ‭ESV‬‬

I pray you choose Him today and that you’re able to experience the joy in your journey.