Comprehension Comparisons

“Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.  I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the Holy.  Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?  Who hath gathered the wind in his fists?  Who hath bound the waters in a garment?  Who hath established all the ends of the earth?  What is His name, and what is His Son's name, if thou canst tell?  Every word of God is pure: He is a Shield unto them that put their trust in Him” (Proverbs 30:2-5). 

There is a simple exercise

To test how wise we really are:

Now look up to the starry skies,

And try to add a single star.

Consider yet another test

Comparing wisdom that exists:

Can you bind waters as they crest

Or gather wind within your fists?

Now try this test to weigh the worth

Of what your wisdom comprehends:

Can you establish in the earth

The full extension of its ends?  

There are more tests of comprehension

That yet require greater depth: 

Can you command your own ascension,

And break the prison bars of death?

We see these questions on creation

Where human comprehension fails

And those pertaining to salvation,

Where Jesus Christ alone prevails.

The Lord has manifestly shown

How pure the words are of His grace  

Which bid us trust in Him alone,

And find in Him our Hiding Place.

O Lord, we thank You for Your Word

By which we learn to trust in You!

To trust ourselves would be absurd

With these comparisons in view!