Space-Filling Thoughts

  Image from Pixabay One of my favorite hymns in our hymnbook is the one by William Cowper, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way.”   God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform: He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never-failing skill, He treasures up His bright designs, And works His sovereign will. It is one of the glories of the Christian faith that this is the way God reveals himself to us.  I am thankful for a mysterious God, for a God who is totally understandable by finite minds would not be God at all but just another idol.  And yet, he has revealed himself to us in his word.  God is mysterious but he is not unknowable because he has spoken in his word.   We see in this passage both the mystery of God and the making known of God.  And we see both of these features in the way the apostle Paul quotes and applies the Scriptures in order to make his point.  As we’ve already no...