The average human has misjudged their capacity for God.
Charles Spurgeon
Our finite minds have to be supernaturally stretched in order to begin, just begin to grasp the infinite nature and capacity of God. Our minds, would literally be blown. Sit for a minute and meditate on eternity. If you succeed in this meditation, you have achieved at ingesting the most minuscule crumb of how infinite God is. Now meditate on all you could achieve in this life, all you could accomplish, all you could do. Do you see how limited you are? You are exhaustable. God is inexhaustable. You are fathomable. God is unfathomable. You have a beginning and an end. God has no beginning and no end.
This explains two things: why God does not choose the intelligent & wise of this world
and why the God-man Jesus, Immanuel, revealed himself to us. The intelligent of this world will always try and grasp or calculate or rationalize the impossibility of One who is all possibilities and infinite. Paul in writing to the Corinthians made this point, “Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” (1 Corinthians 1:20). He goes on to say that it is not from the wisdom of this world that we will ever come to know God (v. 21). This world and its most intelligent people will try to create their own understanding of eternity, instead of confessing their inability and subsequent need of help/rescue/salvation. Then, upon their creation will revell in their perceived understanding–they will glory and elevate themselves instead of giving God the Maker of Heaven and Earth glory. Isn’t that the way of man, we create and achieve with some semblence of humility, but upon the recognition of others, the cursed pride that lurks within exposes itself and we become puffed up in our knowledge and recognition of others. Rare is the individual who can receive the praise of man and be completely unaffected by it.
Jesus of Nazareth is Immanuel, God with us. Jesus is the revelation of God. All of the unfathomableness of God was wrapped up into the life of Jesus. He chose to withhold his glory while on earth, yet for one time upon the Mt. of Transfirguration (Matthew 17:1-12). He who is unlimited and infinite limited himself to finite strictures to be like his creation in every way, except one–sin. The fullness of God dwells in him (Col. 1:19). Therefore, he is able to reconcile “all things” (both finite and infinite) to himself through the peace he made on the cross (Col. 1:20).
Thus, upon rebirth through Jesus Christ, God has poured both his love and his Spirit (Romans 5:5) into our hearts satisfying the immutable cry of eternity that resides permanently there (Ecc. 3:11). Then, ability and capacity should become lost to us. The single question is whether we will obey or not. We judge the capacity of others and ourselves wrongly entirely too often in light of the “immeasurable greatness of his power for those who believe” (Eph. 1:19).
How can my capacity for God be rightly judged? It cannot be weighed by any device of human invention, machination or exploration. For your capacity for God is invisible and can only be weighed by that which is invisible. You cannot weigh invisble things with visible things. God’s Word is then our lens through which we begin to understand invisible things–God’s Word pronounces right judgment. Studying the life and teachings of Jesus is then where we see God’s invisible become visible. Then, it is God’s Spirit at work in us and through us that brings invisibility to visibility. He is the marriage for the Pentecost Christian of the mortal and the immortal, the mutable and the immutable, the incapcitated and the God-capcitated.
Faith is thus the pronouncement of God’s ability in all circumstances, in all situations, and at all times. Faith is not your acceptance of God’s ability, nature and will. Faith is the transcendent belief that has activated all the courses of your inner-being into total agreement and transformation that God is real and he is able. We misjudge our capacity for God, because we misjudge God. We misjudge our capacity for God, because we don’t know Jesus. We misjudge our capacity for God, because His Spirit is not our comforter, teacher and guide. We misjudge our capacity for God, because we have allowed others to confine and unconfinable God.