If Understanding God Were Easy

The woman told me she didn’t believe in Christianity because, if she were God, she’d have communicated in a more reliable way than the Bible. 

Funny how often we think we could run the universe better than God. We want a god who is simple to understand even though that would make him our peer. He'd be just as confused and limited as we are.

C.S. Lewis said this about the complexity of God: 

“If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.” Mere Christianity 

It should give us great joy to know that God's love and wisdom are too deep and wonderful for our understanding (Ephesians 3:16-19, Romans 11:33-36).

And we can be confident: although some things about God are beyond our full understanding, He has revealed everything we need to know (Deuteronomy 29:29; 2 Peter 1:3).