Came across this well-written piece on my FB wall and thought I would reproduce it here. I think it reflects many of the devotions I have written. Link to the post is at the end.
Christianity is hard to understand because God is impossible to understand.
Not confusing in a “this explanation is poorly written” way, but confusing in the same way an ant would be confused by a smartphone. The problem isn’t the phone. It’s the ant.
An ant can crawl across the screen. It can feel the warmth. It might even notice that when you tap the glass, things change. But it has absolutely no framework for apps, satellites, cell towers, or the internet. You could explain it all day long, and the ant would still assume the magic lives inside the glass.
That’s us.
That’s God.
We experience Him. We see effects. We notice movement. We recognize patterns. But we do not have the capacity to fully grasp the system He operates in. Not because He’s hiding. Not because He’s unclear. But because He exists on a scale far beyond ours.
And yet we keep trying to shrink Him down.
We study, diagram, debate, and declare with great confidence that we’ve finally figured Him out. We want God to fit into a box we can label, defend, and feel comfortable with. We want Him predictable. Containable. Explainable in a few tidy sentences.
But God does not fit in boxes. He barely fits in our language.
Christianity centers on a God who exists outside time but steps into it. Who is three and one. Fully just and fully merciful. All-knowing yet responsive. Eternal yet willing to be born, hungry, exhausted, betrayed, and killed. If that doesn’t stretch your brain, you probably simplified something too much.
We get uneasy with mystery, so we replace it with certainty. We hold tightly to our interpretations because certainty feels safer than awe. But faith was never meant to turn God into a system we master. It was meant to teach us humility.
If we could fully understand God, He wouldn’t be God. He’d be manageable. Predictable. Something we could control with the right theology chart and a highlighter. And the moment God fits neatly into our comfort zone, we’ve probably reduced Him to something smaller than He actually is.
Christianity isn’t asking us to understand God completely. It’s asking us to trust Him honestly. To admit our limits without pretending they threaten His goodness.
God isn’t confusing because He’s distant.
He’s confusing because He’s infinite.
And maybe the point was never to understand Him fully.
Maybe the point was to recognize the glass beneath our feet, look up at the vastness beyond it, and still say, “Okay. I don’t get it…but I trust You.”
All credit to author.