Here it is in ESV (cause that’s what I read nowadays…)
7: Can you find out the deep things of God?
Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
8: It is higher than Heaven – what can you do?
Deeper than Sheol – what can you know?
9: Its measure is longer than the earth
and broader than the sea.
Maybe I have written on this topic a few times but I am just amazed more and more by God. That’s my favorite thing about him. He never ends. I supposed he could end if he wanted to, but he doesn’t. Isaiah 40:28, Psalm 90:2, Isaiah 9:6 among others tell us this. I am fully convinced that we will never know the complete depth of God, even when we get to heaven to be with him. What would be the point of believing in a god that you knew everything about? That would be lame right? My God is not lame at all! If you knew everything about God, wouldn’t that put you on the same lever as He is?
Think about your best friend, or someone that you consider to be a very close friend, like someone you would hug every time you see them without giving it a thought. Do you know everything about that person? I highly doubt it. God created us in his own image (Gen 1:27), and thus created a depth inside each of us modeled after himself. If you look all around, you can find examples of God’s depth and mystery in His creation. We are constantly doing research into the human body and plants and animals to record all that we can and we are never finished. There are probably many species of plants and animals that we don’t even know about. We don’t count to infinity. We just give up and label it as “infinity”.
It’s not even about becoming better and better. It’s about going down the path that God has created for us to walk on continuously. To do that effectively, sometimes we need a little something from Him to help us and I am so grateful that He doesn’t hold back or run out.
I could probably write a lot more about this, but I will leave the limitlessness to God.
