“Why Do You Ask My Name?”

Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?” But the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful.”

So Manoah took the kid with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to him who works wonders. When the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar and they fell on their faces to the ground. The angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that it was the angel of the LORD. And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.” But his wife said to him, “If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”

Judges 13:15-23

Who can understand God? God wrote a three billion letter software code in the DNA molecule of every human cell. God knows everything, including our inner most thoughts. Many Old Testament saints knew and loved this God. They experienced the joy of His grace and forgiveness, even though they did not completely understand how a holy God could forgive their sins.

As Christians, we too stand in awe before the majesty and mystery of an incomprehensible God. But we have a great advantage because we see Him revealed in Jesus. When Jesus hung on the cross, He revealed God’s compassion and love, for He died for us.

Life is a mystery. But how wonderful it is that we can know the infinite love of this incomprehensible God.

To understand God is impossible,

To worship Him is imperative.

Our Daily Bread – March 22, 2005