BE STILL AND KNOW
Romans 11:33-36
Introduction
Who am I? That's an important question!
Who are you? How are we to relate? Those are important things too.
What about God? What is He like? How do I relate to Him? Those things are most important of all.
If we lift this hymn about God out of this context, which describes the history of His work with His people, it doesn't seem to abuse the message. We can use it to instruct our praise and to remind ourselves of "the way it is" when everything secondary is cut away.
I. God Is Counsellor. I Am Not His Counsellor (v. 34).
A. Who among us knows forever?
B. Do we understand how the world has been put together, in all of its wonderful complexity and detail, with its phenomenal function?
C. What about the seasons and cycles, systems and energies and atmospheres?
D. How well does anyone understand our amazing bodies and our amazing minds?
Scientists now calculate that if the electronic energy in the hydrogen atoms of our body could be utilized, you could supply all of the electrical needs of a large, highly industrialized country for nearly a week. A DuPont scientist said that the atoms of your body contain a potential energy of more than eleven million kilowatt hours per pound of body weight. By this estimate the average person is worth about eighty-five million dollars. Isn't it remarkable that some folks think that all of this just happened? It came from nothing! There was no purposer, and it has no purpose. This created place, these created things, these created persons are so intricate, so promising. What do you suppose the One behind all this is like?
E. Does any one of us know all ...