5.14.2026 - Matt Hekman

May 14

As we continue our study of the incomprehensibility of God, we turn to 1 Cor 2:6-16

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”[b]— the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”[d]

But we have the mind of Christ.

Only the Spirit can know Christ & Christ can know the father, yet the Spirit gives us the mind of Christ

I have to admit that this is a difficult topic to write about for devotionals. The Incomprehensibility of God. We can’t understand God. Let’s talk about it for five days. It is clear from scripture, though, that we can’t comprehend God. He is incomprehensible. At least we can’t do it fully. And to the degree we can, it is a gift given to his people by God himself.

In today’s text we see that idea expressed. As believers we are granted by God’s Spirit the right to understand a mystery of God that was hidden from the beginning until Christ’s coming and completion of his resurrection work. The truth of who Christ was as the son of God was obscured to the rulers of the day, or “they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory” (v.8). Its only made known by God to those whom he wills to know it.

God gives us comprehension to see him and believe him. By his spirit we can comprehend at least part of the mystery of God. The part of his mystery that we are granted to understand is of immense value. We’re allowed to see Jesus for who he is as the Messiah. We’re given the right to be known as sons and daughters of God.

That same Spirit that knows the mind of God is given to us. As believers we are given the Holy Spirit as a seal of our salvation. But there is more to it than that. The Holy Spirit gives us the ability to understand and see the gospel and truth, and then to believe it as our means of grace unto salvation. (Mt 11:27)

The end of our scripture reading for today tells us that “we have the mind of Christ.” Now, we do not have the fullness of the understanding of God, nor will we ever attain that. But we have the ability to comprehend in part, to know God and see Jesus as our way to Him.

How then shall we live? As ones with the mind of Christ, knowing the mystery of God, we ought to live lives of worship obedience.