God’s wisdom is inseparable from his character. What God understands informs how he is, and how he is informs what he understands. Can you understand what he understands?1 Can you reason as well as he does?2 To the extent that you can’t think like God would in your place,3 you will be unable to predict what he would do in your place or how he would feel in your situation. To the extent that your ability to reason falls short of God’s, you will see different options for thought, feeling, and action than he does, and you will see them differently than he does.
Footnotes
- 1. ...believe that [God] has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. (Mosiah 4:9) ↩
- 2. Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it. (Job 40:2) ↩
- 3. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9) ↩