Who has known the mind of the Lord?

"For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His counsellor  ""Or who has first given to him and it shall be repaid to Him?" For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen. – Romans 11.34-36

Sometimes we just can't understand what is going on. Sometimes we just can't figure out what in the world is going on. Sometimes we just can't figure out what God is doing.

The context here is understanding God and salvation. However Paul expands it to a general statement to tying into understand the mind of God.

Understanding the mind of God is an impossible task. We can’t simply because we are us and He is God.

Isaiah writes this -  ‘Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.’ 

We are sinners. God is perfect. We are frail. God is all powerful. God know, and we don't. 

When God speaks to Job after Job questioned Him He said "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.’

Job couldn't answer, and neither can we/ 

But when it all said and done there is something we do need to grasp – all things are of God, all things and through Him, and all things are to Him – because He is the one who is worthy of eternal glory.

A true test of faith is giving God the glory even when we don’t understand what is going on. What really matters is that God deserves the glory simply because He is God. One day we are going to get it and it will all make sense. It is time to stop trying to hold God to our standard.