WONDER & WORSHIP

In my role as a church elder, I sometimes get into conversations with sincere believers who have themselves tied up in knots over some aspect of theology, in a way that is ultimately unfruitful and unhelpful. These conversations tend to turn on subjects such as predestination, creation and eschatology - subjects which are too large and grand for our finite minds to fully compute. They are the things that seem to me to come under the Deuteronomy 29:29 directive that "the secret things belong to Yahweh", and there comes a point where I have to say, "I just don't know - but I choose to trust."

Calvin puts it well:

Thou seekest reason? I tremble at the depth. Reason, thou; I will marvel. Dispute, thou; I will believe. I see the depth; I do not reach the bottom.

We are meant to be led to wonder and worship, not dogmatism or doubt.