UV 815/10,000 Expanding our Understanding “Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.” Psalm 147 v 5 God is so infinite that it is past us finite men to find out His ways or to understand His ways. His wisdom and knowledge are unsearchable. No matter how much we search, research, experiment or analyse, we cannot understand His greatness or fathom or measure the limits of His power. Our own understanding, both individually and collectively is limited. Unless the Lord reveals His infinite nature and different aspects of His being to us, how can we ever understand Him? Yet by studying the Word of God, we can understand Him. We can appreciate His greatness and awesome power. We will be moved from ignorance to reverence. Our own understanding will expand. Our wisdom will grow in leaps and bounds as we are drawn into a personal relationship with God. We need understanding in the realm of relationships while we need knowledge and wisdom in the realm of our decisions and daily functions. God understands us better than we understand ourselves. When we understand the Word of God, we will get to gain an insight into ourselves and others. Those whose understanding is expanded by being in contact with the limitless understanding of God will experience the greatness, goodness, might and grace of the Lord in their lives. Those who develop such understanding will be better managers, leaders and rulers. In a maternity suit before King Solomon, His God-given and expanded understanding enabled him to use his insight into the psyche of a mother as opposed to any other woman to determine whose child a disputed baby was? We need to pray and ask the Lord to expand our understanding of ourselves as well as others. Prateep V Philip