Someone Understands

Bulletins

Brian Nielsen
03/17/24 - General

"No one understands me."

If you say that about others around you, you might or might not be right.

But no one? The only question is whether that is more disrespectful or just all-out wrong. Don't make yourself more complicated than you are to the one who made you. The inspired prophet put it this way in Isaiah 64:8 -- “But now, O lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; and all we are are the work of Your hand."

So if you're looking for understanding, start with the potter who created you. We can't be more complicated than He who made us. Again, we can find this in Isaiah: Chapter 40, verse 28 says, "Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable."

We will not understand how much God understands. From that Isaiah prophecy to after Jesus came to earth to save us, the inspired writer Paul proclaimed in Romans 11:33, "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!" This is also clear in Psalm 147:5 -- "Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."

Accordingly, we can ask our God anything. We don't have to understand everything to pray because we have One who does: "Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God." (Rom. 8:26-27)

How comforting to know we don't have to be perfect in order for our prayers to be perfectly answered. Jesus said in Matthew 6:8, "Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him."

Someone understands.

(Scripture quotes are from the NKJV