There is a tension of opposites throughout Scripture.
God loves and hates.
He forgives and condemns.
War and peace are His to give.
Joy and sorrow come from Him.
Christ, the Lion and the Lamb.
It sometimes seems God contradicts Himself.
The people of God are described as a remnant, and yet as many as the sand upon the shore.
They are dressed as a bride but also addressed as a worm.
God's sheep are never ultimately lost, yet can fall away, unable to be renewed unto repentance.
All come together in God alone. This is His otherness.
God's incomprehensibility is anathema to man, who sees patterns and creates his own gods.
It is God who says:
'My ways are not your ways, neither are your thoughts my thoughts'.
Our answer should be:
'How unsearchable are His judgements, and His ways past finding out.'
It is not us who question God , but He who will question us.
Like Job, we are those who ' darken counsel without knowledge'.
Like him, we should become those who 'abhor ourselves and repent in dust and ashes.'
That from which we came.
Charles Spurgeon said: 'If a truth is proclaimed in one part of Scripture, I will preach it. If the opposite is proclaimed in another, I will preach that too.'
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