Antinomy.

This past week I started my online college courses and I have to say, I am really enjoying them.  Through the online discussion boards, I've been able to meet a lot of fellow students in the program from all over the country... Their passions for God and similar ministry goals encourage me so much! 

I've also begun my studies of Old Testament Survey and the Church and its Doctrines.  I feel like I'm already learning so much but ironically, the more I study, the more I realize all that I don't know or understand.  There's a word in my Theology book called "antinomy."  It is defined as "something that is contrary to law or contrary to human understanding.  An antinomy, of course, is such only in the mind of man; with God there is no antinomy" in The Moody Handbook of Theology by Paul Enns.  Basically, there are some things we just won't understand.  This has bothered me to some extent, but the more I think about it, I'm thankful for the antinomy.  It shows how God's understanding is bigger than mine.  He is God, and I am not.  His knowledge supercedes what I can humanly understand.  As it says in Isaiah 55:9:

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts."

So yes, I'm actually enjoying my online classes.  And I'm learning a lot too.  I'm even learning by not understanding.  If that is even possible :)

"Since it is God we are speaking of, you do not understand it.  If you could understand it, it would not be God." ~St. Augustine