Mysteries of the Bible a Proof of its Inspiration
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lack of spiritual discernment, have found cause of stumbling in the
plainest utterances of God.
Men who imagine themselves endowed with mental powers of so
high an order that they can find an explanation of all the ways and
works of God, are seeking to exalt human wisdom to an equality with
the divine and to glorify man as God. They are only repeating that
which Satan declared to Eve in Eden: “Ye shall be as gods.” Satan fell
because of his ambition to be equal with God. He desired to enter into
the divine counsels and purposes, from which he was excluded by his
own inability, as a created being, to comprehend the wisdom of the
Infinite One. It was this ambitious pride that led to his rebellion, and
by the same means he seeks to cause the ruin of man.
There are mysteries in the plan of redemption—the humiliation
of the Son of God, that He might be found in fashion as a man, the
wonderful love and condescension of the Father in yielding up His
Son—that are to the heavenly angels subjects of continual amazement.
The apostle Peter, speaking of the revelations given to the prophets of
“the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow,” says that
these are things which “the angels desire to look into.” And these will
be the study of the redeemed through eternal ages. As they contemplate
the work of God in creation and redemption, new truth will continually
unfold to the wondering and delighted mind. As they learn more and
more of the wisdom, the love, and the power of God, their minds will
be constantly expanding, and their joy will continually increase.
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If it were possible for created beings to attain to a full understand-
ing of God and His works, then, having reached this point, there would
be for them no further discovery of truth, no growth in knowledge,
no further development of mind or heart. God would no longer be
supreme; and men, having reached the limit of knowledge and attain-
ment, would cease to advance. Let us thank God that it is not so. God
is infinite; in Him are “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
And to all eternity men may be ever searching, ever learning, and yet
they can never exhaust the treasures of His wisdom, His goodness, and
His power.
God intends that, even in this life, truth shall be ever unfolding
to His people. There is only one way in which this knowledge can
be obtained. We can attain to an understanding of God’s word only
through the illumination of that Spirit by which the word was given.