You are always doing great and inscrutable things with us, glorious and wonderful, and without number.
[For the full prayer, click St. Basil’s Prayer: Lent 2024 above.]
Inscrutable – impossible to understand or interpret; impenetrable; incapable of being analyzed or investigated.
I don’t think this means that God is doing things in a devious way, or with the intention of keeping us ignorant of divine actions. I think it’s more a matter of scale and depth. I can no more comprehend the great things that God is doing with us than I can view the entire state of Vermont from my living room window. I can only see a part of it because my life is held in its geographical embrace. What I see is real and true, but the view is limited and my understanding equally limited. I’m in no position and in no shape to claim anything I experience as universal or all-encompassing.
I hope I remember this when I am tempted to discount the ideas and vantage points of others.
I hope I remember this when I am tempted to limit God’s great doings with us to God’s great doings with me.
Inscrutable–totally beyond our comprehension–how can we mere mortals possibly “get it”? Yet ever so often–a spark–a moment of divine bliss–the so-called “gestalt”blooms like some miracle in the desert–voila! That’s it–I DO get it! A tiny speck of heaven.A blessing–that inscrutable ,loving pat on the back.
Amen
Thanks, Bill! You always have a wonderful way of getting things across with your words. Peace, Johnna