Before getting into days study I want to share how we can enter into the learning of Christ. This is first seen in Psalm 119 and then asked of the Lord Jesus in Matthew 11:29.
Psalm 119:33-40 He.
"Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes; and I will keep it to the end. Give me understanding, that I may keep Your law (will, plan and purposes) and observe it with my whole heart. Lead me in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it. Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in Your ways. Confirm to Your servant Your promises, that You may be feared (highly reverenced). Turn away the reproach that I dread, for Your rules are good. Behold, I long for Your precepts; in Your righteousness give me life!"
Matthew 11:25-27, 28-30 "At that time Jesus declared, "I thank You, Father, LORD of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was Your gracious (plan and purpose) will. All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal (ei..Christ) Him.
Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Are you prepared to) Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light (when two walk in agreement to become One)."
Now here is a great secret, we possess what we confess be it negative or in agreement with GOD's positive.
From here I will look into GODs Unsearchable (unfathomable), ways and working:
Job 5:8-16 "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number: He gives rain (ie..grace) on the earth and sends waters on the fields; He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end. They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night. For He saves the needy from the sword (tongue) of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth."
Job 11:7-12, 33:13, 37:23 "Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. If He passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn Him back? For He knows worthless men; when He sees iniquity, will He not consider it? For a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!"
Job 33:13-18 "Why do you contend against Him, saying, 'He will answer none of man's words'? For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then He opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, that He may turn man aside from his deeds and conceal pride from a man; He keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword."
Job 37:21-24 "And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them. Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty. The Almighty—we cannot find Him; He is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness He will not violate. Therefore men (reverence and revere) fear Him; He does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit."
Ecclesiastes 3:9-11, 8:17 "What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end."
Ecclesiastes 8:10-13, 14-15, 16-17 "Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy places and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity. Because the sentence against an evil deeds are not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear (pay reverence and respect) before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will He prolong his days like a shadow, because He does not fear before God.
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.
Then I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep, then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out."
Isaiah 40:27-31, Romans 11:34 "Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting GOD, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might He increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."
Romans 11:25-32, 33-36 "Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob (Isaiah 59:20)"; "and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins (Isaiah 59:21, Jeremiah 31:33-34 with Hebrews 8:10; Isaiah 27:9 with Hebrews 8:12)." As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy. For God has consigned all to disobedience, that He may have mercy on all.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable his ways (Job 5:9, 11:7, 15:8)! "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor (Isaiah 40:13f)?" "Or who has given a gift to Him that he might be repaid (Job 35:7, 41:11)?" For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. The Amen."
1Corinthians 2:6-13, 14-16 "Yet among the mature we do impart (Christ's) wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. That we may impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. However none of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified (and keep crucifying) the Lord of glory. For, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God (Isaiah 64:, 65:17). For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
For the natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him (Isaiah 40:13)?" But we have the mind of Christ."
Our next study deals with Divinity Veiled.
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