The unsearchable

O the depth

For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! – Romans 11.30-33

Who can understand God’s riches? Who can comprehend His knowledge? Who ‘gets’ His judgements. Who can question His ways? The answer to all of these is that no one is qualified to grasp the depths of our God.

But the question that brings all the up is that God shows mercy even to the disobedient who will turn to Him. how does God do that? how does He more out His mercy to a world that does not deserve it? we arent going to get it. We are not going to understand it. But that does not relieve us of a responsibility that we see here.

'That through the mercy shown you they might receive mercy.' Because we all, Jew and Gentile, are disobedient we all require God's mercy. Those of us who have received His mercy have the task of showing other God's mercy through our words and through our lives.

It think Paul explains it well in his letter to the Ephesians when he desribes our responsibility to preach of the unsearchable riches of God's mercy.

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, (Ephesians 3.8)