Romans 11:33

“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of GOD! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!” Romans 11:33 KJV

“Our consolation is knowing that Our Father is working according to His own wisdom.” Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest

Oswald’s thoughts on Romans 11:33 affirm that the Church needs to understand how great and awesome our GOD is! He is bigger than our desire for comfort and peace. Peace and comfort are found in the rest of GOD and that rest does not mean that everything in our life is easy and comfortable; Jesus said, “Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentile (meek) and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV

To enter into His rest we first must be laboring in His Kingdom, the works that Jesus did as the Son of GOD; the works that the Apostles did. The Apostles called themselves bondservants of Christ, they experienced persecution, suffering and death for their faith. They tell us to not only expect trials, tests and persecutions but to rejoice in them. Jesus said we would be persecuted, imprisoned and killed for our faith, He said we would have to flee for our lives at times.

The bigness of our GOD is not in how comfortable and peaceful our life is it is in how in the persecution, tests and trials of life while we do the works of His Kingdom we have His rest!

Study Matthew 5:11-12, 5:43-46, 7:21-23, 10:16-42; Luke 6:22-26; Hebrews12:1-11; James 1:2-27; 1 Peter 3:13-4:19; 1 John 4:20-5:5; Revelation 7:13-17; Romans 1:1; James 1:1; 2 Peter 1:1; Jude 1:1