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4/7 Reading Portions: Leviticus 10; Psalm 11-12; Proverbs 25; 1 Thessalonians 4
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
BLESSED
This axiom is a blessed truth with several aspects and dimensions, too many for us to consider in a single devotion. We will only focus upon two today, one from each section of this proverb. First, as it is the glory of God to conceal things, our blessed Creator is so merciful that He conceals things from the world at large. They are beyond our comprehension. He is infinite; we are finite. He is transcendent; we are base. He is independent; we are dependent. Because of the corruptions remaining in our mortal flesh, to encounter the hidden things of God would cause us to melt like a wax figure hurled upon the surface of the sun. His judgments and inscrutable ways are unsearchable and beyond our finding out. And although they are unsearchable, as we are kings and priests because He has saved us by His grace through Christ Jesus (1 Pet 2:9), it is wise to search out the things of God in Christ. Are we to search out the unsearchable things of God? No, of course not. Those concealed things are God’s magnificent and glorious things which we ponder unto amazement; yet they cannot be analyzed and scrutinized as if we hoped to achieve closure in reconciling such truths as God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility, or God’s mercy and justice, etc. What we search out are those things revealed; that is, in His great revelation to the world, found in His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6). He is the declaration of God’s plans and purposes, as well as the fulfillment of them. God is glorified when we search out the truths of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the brightness of the Father’s glory and express imprint of His person (Heb 1:3). When we search out the depths and riches of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s glory shines upon us and our lives will therefore reflect His glory in a most supreme and most royal way. Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Our God is merciful unto us,
He conceals those things too deep;
Yet to us, as kings, He does entrust
Our Christ’s truth to search and keep.