Be Still And Know

Psalm 71:20-21 NLT 'You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth. You will restore me to even greater honour and comfort me once again.' The word “mystery” is often used in relation to God. This suggests that God is an enigma, often hard to comprehend and always beyond our understanding. As something of an academic, I trust my brain and have spent my life working things out through my active thought processes. However, God lies beyond human rationality. If I could satisfactorily explain God, then the God I explained could not be God. If God can be contained within the framework of the human mind, then God is no longer omniscient, omnipresent or omnipotent. I’ve written previously about moving from the comfort zone into the learning zone. This makes me feel uncomfortable because I encounter what I don’t already know and so have to learn. Will I be successful in my learning? Can I gain greater understanding and new skills? Past le