“How great are Your works, LORD, how profound Your thoughts!” – Psalm 92:5, NIV

Sometime back, someone posted a picture showing how our Earth looks like when viewed from Mars.

It was as small as the full-stop at the end of this sentence.

Mark you, there are eight planets that orbit the Sun (one of billions of stars) and planet Mars is the nearest planet to Earth.

Besides, the exact total number of galaxies, leave alone planets, in the entire universe is currently unknown and may never be fully determined due to the vastness and complexity of space and the extreme limitation of the technology to do it.

God’s creation is simply profound, isn’t it?

The word ‘profound’ in our meditation today finds its origin from the Latin word profundus, which means ‘deep.’

The dictionary definition of ‘profound’ is something that is extending far below the surface or that is difficult to comprehend, fathom or understand.

As communicators, we are always under tremendous pressure to make things easy to understand.

By nature, human beings are wired to like simplicity.

Simple things are easy to grasp and require minimal cognitive effort to understand.

This accessibility appeals to the majority of people because it doesn’t require effort to make sense of. 

Simply put, it is as near to the surface or to the shore as possible.

Anyone can pick it up and go.

However, our meditation today says God’s thoughts are profound – extremely difficult to comprehend, fathom or understand!

With all the unfathomable experiences that he went through, Job knew that all too well: “His wisdom is profound, His power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?” (Job 9:4).

Even King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, had an admission to make: “Whatever exists is far off and most profound— who can discover it?” (Ecclesiastes 7:24).

God’s understanding, wisdom, insights and thoughts for are incredibly deep and beyond human comprehension.

His ideas, plans and intentions are far more complex, insightful, and encompassing than a mere human being can fathom.

Unlike even the most highly educated experts, God has a profound understanding of all things—of the universe, of human nature, of existence itself—in ways that no humans cannot fully grasp.

His wisdom surpasses human wisdom by far.

“His wisdom is profound, His power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?”

JOB 9:4

God’s thoughts are not only wise but encompass the entirety of creation and eternity – throughout all ages – past, present and future.

Things to do with God are absolutely mysterious and beyond human reasoning.

Now, if we can’t comprehend the physical world that He created and has been maintaining in tiptop working condition for eons, how can we fathom its Creator?

For you and I, recognizing the profound nature of God’s thoughts to us must translate into deep humility in acknowledging the limits of our human understanding and to lay all our credentials down in in the dust in reverence to His sovereignty.

We have the challenge to acknowledge the vastness and incomprehensibility of God’s nature compared to human capabilities.

Here is how the apostle Paul described it in Romans 11:33: “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!”

1 Cor. 2:10: But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.”

It is God’s Spirit who enables us to “be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passes all knowledge.”

Let’s all humble ourselves, acknowledge His Lordship, sovereignty and profound thoughts over our lives and bow down to reverence and worship Him all our days, Amen.