I’m reminded this morning that discovery is God’s idea . . . and that the purpose of discovery is ultimately to reveal the glory of God.

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.   (Proverbs 25:2 ESV)

What a thought to chew on. The glory of God is tied in with “the secret thing”. God wouldn’t be God if we could fully figure Him out . . . if there were no mystery . . . if there were no questions.

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And My ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.”   (Isaiah 55:8 NLT)

That is an integral part of the greatness of God . . . that He creates in a manner and operates in a realm which is beyond our comprehension. To that end, His glory is seen in the things we don’t know and the things we don’t understand. His awesome greatness is experienced as we realize how little we’ve seen of God and how we’ve just started to scratch the surface on knowing Him. There are “dots to connect” that we have yet to even imagine. The glory of God being revealed as we pursue the mysteries of creation . . . the heavenly communication of the Bible . . .the mysterious operation of the indwelling Holy Spirit. And that, says Proverbs, is the glory of kings, to search out the unsearchable.

When you think about all that a king possesses you might come up with any number of things that sets him apart and might be considered his glory. But the Scriptures says that what really sets apart a king is a heart that seeks out the deep things of God . . . and if that is the glory of kings, what is it for “common man?”

Is there a higher preoccupation for man than to know His Creator? Is there a more worthy pursuit than the pursuit of knowing God? And, if I read my handy dandy Hebrew translator correctly, the idea here isn’t so much that the glory is in “finding out” or “figuring it out” . . . but the glory is associated with searching . . . exploring . . . examining thoroughly. It’s not so much what we find . . . but the glory is in the heart that seeks to find more.

It’s the heart that thirsts for the water of the things of God. It’s the heart whose appetite can’t be met . . . for every morsel of discovery that he digests only increases the desire for more of God.

Can a person really search out God and discover His “secrets?” To a degree, our scientists have been doing it through the millennia . . . though often without seeing the God behind the discovery or breakthrough. But, for the redeemed, there is a whole other frontier of discovery. The saved man or woman possesses the mind of Christ through the indwelling Holy Spirit and thus, has the highest powered “spiritual telescope” . . . the strongest “spiritual microscope” . . . such that he has the potential to discover the concealed things of God beyond just the physical mysteries of creation. What the redeemed must do, however, is to set their hearts on searching them out.

O’ for a heart that seeks after the deep things of God! O’ for a hunger and thirst such that, after we have tasted and seen the Lord is good we will cry, “Please Lord! More!” O’ for a mind that seeks to enter in to the high and lofty ways of a high and holy God. O’ for a passionate pursuit of the concealed things of God fueled by the indwelling Spirit who desires to make Him known.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways!   (Romans 11:33 ESV)

. . . But we have the mind of Christ.   (2Corinthinas 2:16b ESV)

Searching out the unsearchable . . . by His grace . . . for His glory . . .