The Unsearchable Riches

Of GOD’S Wisdom

How unsearchable are the ways of God. His thoughts are not as our own. We shall never come to understand His intentions until we seek Him for Himself alone. We will not discover His wisdom by searching in the ways of men. He waits for us in the secret place of communion and meets us in the hour of prayer. He is also everywhere, but to have eyes to see Him, we must first have a heart to draw near to Him in prayer, for worship is not so much of the intellect as of the heart. God is not so much waiting to be understood, as to be loved. It is the posture of reverent adoration that will draw us into a more intimate fellowship with the Father, and with the Lord Jesus.

Without the touch of the divine consistently influencing our actions and guiding our thoughts, life becomes a haphazard experiment ending in a maze of confusion and disenchantment. We are not equipped to handle it alone, for man was created with the intention that he would maintain communion with his God. True communion is more in the will than the intellect. We shall find God as we seek Him. The Scripture says, “As the hart pants after the water-brooks, so pants my heart after You, O God” (Psalm 42:1). It does not say, “So pants my head after You.” It is not a “head trip” it is a heart concern. “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also,” said Jesus. The more time we spend in prayer, seeking God’s face. A cold heart is a heart that is not being exposed to the Presence of God through conscious communion and prayer. Prayerlessness is at the center of most of our spiritual ills. By spending time in private prayer, we can save ourselves many hours of fruitless wanderings. To reach a destination we do not inquire the way from one who is lost. If we wish to acquire divine wisdom, we are safest to seek it from God Himself. As believers, we are taught by the Word to seek to have the mind of Christ. The orientation of our thought life and our consciousness is to be on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth. Beloved, it will never become so if our lives are prayerless.

Jesus spent many hours in communion with the Father during His earthly life, and even now, He continually makes intercession for us in heaven. Prayerlessness is the quickest route to spiritual failure. No eye may see the praying saint, but the outward effects will be plainly visible. The same will be true of the absence of prayer in a life. Nothing is truer than the statement that there are no secrets. The outward evidence is not the purpose of prayer, for we do not prays the Pharisees “to be seen of men,” however, the influence of prayer in our lives will be felt by others.

We have been conditioned to think of prayer changing things, and this is often true; however, the greatest dynamic of prayer is its power to change US. Concern about the mechanics of prayer need not hold us back. Many a successful prayer has been prayed by the novice in a crisis moment. We learn in a hurry in a life-threatening situation. It is a cop-out to use the excuse of not knowing how to pray correctly in order to avoid seriously engaging in prayer. God is far more displeased by our not praying at all, than He would ever be by a faltering attempt.

There are no reasons for not praying…there are only excuses. If sin is in the way, we need to pray for forgiveness; if doubt is in the way, we need to pray for more faith; if unforgiveness is in the way, we need to pray for the grace to forgive; if sloth is hindering, we need to shake ourselves free of the weight of laziness and rescue our soul from its dangers; and if our love for God has grown cold, we need to pray all the more in order to rekindle the fires of devotion, for it was the very lack of prayer that let the fire die.

Heavenly Father, we lift our hearts to You in love and worship. You are ever mindful of us and of our needs. You know our hearts in a way that we do not know ourselves. We pray for the illumination of Your Holy Spirit to make plain to us the hidden things and reveal to us the secret things that lie within our inmost beings, for we do not have the power to search our own souls. By Thy Spirit try our spirits and bring to light that which is not pleasing in Your sight. Purge us we pray, of sin, and take authority over every rebellious thought. Let us be willing to be chastened and disciplined by You in order to be brought into conformity to Your divine nature and ruled by Your love. In Jesus’ Name, we pray, Amen.

Taken from Total Love by Frances Roberts

“She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: ‘You are the God who sees me,” for she said, ‘I have now seen the One who sees me.” That is why the well was called Beer- Lahai- Roi”. Gen. 16:13, 14

“…the God who sees concerns Himself about our needs. El Roi is the God who looks after us, who sees to it that our needs are met. He is not the God of the glaring eye who goes about spying as a detective. While it is true that He sees every sinful thought, word, and deed of all men, the name El Roi was first used by a lonely, friendless girl (Hagar) who, in her distress, learned that God saw her plight and treated her with grace and mercy.”

Leman Strauss