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our side and on our behalf. Well may we echo the words of the Psalmist: "How great is
the sum of them!"
We do well, also, to remember that it is not wise for us to judge the thoughts of the
Lord by our own standards:--
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the
Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your
ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (Isa. 55: 8, 9).
There are doubtless many ways in which the thoughts of the Lord differ from the
thoughts of men; one of these that is in view in Isa. 55: is that, whereas many of the
thoughts of men never mature, the "thoughts" of the Lord, manifested in His "word", do
not "return unto Him void".
While the contemplation of this unsearchable knowledge is overwhelming and
humbling, it is surely comforting also when we remember that "this God is our God". Is
it not a subject for praise, to be able to say with David, "Thou hast known my soul in
adversaries" (Psa. 31: 7)? The sons of Korah found comfort in this knowledge of
God:--
"If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a
strange god; shall not God search this out? for He knoweth the secrets of the heart"
(Psa. 44: 20, 21).
Again, how blessed, even though it cover us with shame, to be able to say: "O God,
Thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from Thee" (Psa. 69: 5). And
who is there that has never fled for refuge to that precious passage:--
"Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For He
knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust" (Psa. 103: 13, 14).
"His understanding is infinite." "This God is our God."