Pondering the Imponderables

Do you ever lay there at night and ponder the imponderables? When I was a teenager it used to be INFINITY that blew my mind. We were taught that the universe went on forever… Now we know that is not true. It is continually expanding but it does not go on forever. So now I get to ponder, what is on the other side of the edge of the universe??? Contemplating these things is child’s play compared to contemplating God. He’s the One who spoke and the Universe came into being. God has no beginning and no end. He created time and is not bound by it. So what will existing outside of time be like? Why did God make billions of people who will choose never to accept Him as their Lord and Savior? Why did God allow this or not do that? How does God accomplish His sovereign decretive will using our free will choices that often violate His prescriptive will… and is able to work it all out for the good of those who love Him and are called by Him according to His will and purposes?

Over years of pondering the imponderables (I have only mentioned a few here) I can only speculate as to the why and end up having to be content with, "I don't know" - but that's okay. God knows and I since I must trust Him for my next breath, I think I can trust Him with the whys to my imponderables. But pondering these imponderables is not an exercise in futility. It is exercise for my mind that has helped me arrive at some solid truths.

• Pondering these questions will either drive you to your knees in worship of your Creator or send you pridefully huffing away from Him. [Pray it is not the latter]
• God’s ways are not our ways

  [Isaiah 55:9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. - I must accept that my finite mind cannot comprehend the infinite mind of God except for where He has sweetly stooped to lisp]

• God does not owe me an explanation

  [(book of Job) and why possibly would the clay pot get to lip off to the potter?]

• When ever I have the ridiculous thought that I am ever more loving, more caring, more fair than God I need to remember that the only reason I have a clue as to what loving, caring and fairness are, is because God gave me the ability to even value those qualities that are a reflection of who He is. [So, yikes. I should shut up]
• Is this universe with all it's pain and suffering the best possible universe for God's good purposes? Many times I end with echoing Peter from John 6, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” [LORD, I believe, help my unbelief]
  

The heavens really do declare His righteousness, and all the peoples have seen His glory. Selah.