March 16th, 2026
by Reed Bradley
by Reed Bradley
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.”
Romans 11:33-36 ESV
You can never overestimate God. His power and majesty, His goodness and faithfulness, His every quality stretches beyond our ability to quantify. He has no lack, or need. There is no limitation to His knowledge and governance.
We give assent to this idea but we quickly forget it in the midst of the ups and downs of life don’t we? God why did this happen? God how can these people do this? God why me? Why them? Questions often easily give way to suggestions in our prayers and we can find ourselves laying forth the blueprints of our perfect plans attempting to sway the Lord to our way of thinking. We bring forth our best lawyer impression seeking to be respectful of the judge but persuasive for our cause.
We see this exemplified in the story of Job. God describes him as righteous but rapidly all blessings and good things of the world are taken away from Job. He is left sick in body, morning in spirit with a nagging wife and accusatory friends. The book of Job lays forth his protests of innocence and the questions of the evil that has befallen him. God’s response? The extended answer can be found in Job 38-42 but the summary could perhaps be encapsulated as “I am God, and you are not.” The reminder is of all that God has done without our help and without our insight. The answer humbled Job, and should humble us as well. It is not a dismissal of suffering but an encouragement that God is still on His throne.
This season leading up to Easter have you considered how much more wonderful and glorious God’s plan for redemption is than anything that we could have come up with? God has accomplished what we could not and brought us salvation through Christ Jesus our Lord! Praise God for His great mercy to us!
Romans 11:33-36 ESV
You can never overestimate God. His power and majesty, His goodness and faithfulness, His every quality stretches beyond our ability to quantify. He has no lack, or need. There is no limitation to His knowledge and governance.
We give assent to this idea but we quickly forget it in the midst of the ups and downs of life don’t we? God why did this happen? God how can these people do this? God why me? Why them? Questions often easily give way to suggestions in our prayers and we can find ourselves laying forth the blueprints of our perfect plans attempting to sway the Lord to our way of thinking. We bring forth our best lawyer impression seeking to be respectful of the judge but persuasive for our cause.
We see this exemplified in the story of Job. God describes him as righteous but rapidly all blessings and good things of the world are taken away from Job. He is left sick in body, morning in spirit with a nagging wife and accusatory friends. The book of Job lays forth his protests of innocence and the questions of the evil that has befallen him. God’s response? The extended answer can be found in Job 38-42 but the summary could perhaps be encapsulated as “I am God, and you are not.” The reminder is of all that God has done without our help and without our insight. The answer humbled Job, and should humble us as well. It is not a dismissal of suffering but an encouragement that God is still on His throne.
This season leading up to Easter have you considered how much more wonderful and glorious God’s plan for redemption is than anything that we could have come up with? God has accomplished what we could not and brought us salvation through Christ Jesus our Lord! Praise God for His great mercy to us!
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