Climbing the Mountains of God's Mysteries

I have read writers and heard speakers who try to make our ignorance of God’s ways the main reason for our admiration and worship of God. They usually talk about God’s «secrets»", by which we should understand the immeasurable depths and heights of the knowledge of God, and this, as it were, should move us, surprise us, and arouse awe at how much we do not know about God.
I've always found that to be deceptive. I'm not attracted to people who do that. Paul's approach, for example, is very different. He would say that God is most glorified when we are amazed, delighted, worshipped, and joyfully obeyed by the fact that we we know about Him, not because of what we think about Him not we know.
Your fascination and wonder at a mountain range may be based on a view from the foothills, watching it rise and disappear into the low clouds. Or it may be based on years of expeditions up mountain ranges, discovering that every time you reach the summit of one incredibly high peak, a whole series of other mountains rise before and above you.
It would be no great honor for God to spend your whole life in the foothills, writing poems and songs about how much you don't know beyond the clouds. It would be far better to let God put your hand in the hand of Paul (or any of His other biblical writers) and then spend your whole life climbing with him up the high paths of revelation.

«"Incomprehensible and Unsearchable"?

One of the most misunderstood and misused passages in Paul's epistles is the great climactic passage at the end of Romans:

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and past finding out His ways! «For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?» «Has anyone given to Him, that it should be repaid to Him?» For from Him, through Him, and to Him are all things! To Him be glory forever. Amen (Romans 11:33-36).

My key observation is this: Paul describes this delight in God’s riches not instead to discover this wealth, and because he has just laid out this wealth in eleven chapters of a stunning revelation that astounds the imagination. He is delighted that he has just opened, not because of what is left hidden. These words of wonder come at the end of eleven chapters in which Paul leads us into the depths and heights of God's ways that none of us could have imagined.
Only reading the previous three poems It is amazing to imagine God's ways. Not because they are hidden behind a cloud of ignorance, but because they are revealed as completely unexpected, counterintuitive, shocking, and God-glorifying. Paul summarizes God's plans for Jews and Gentiles:

Because how are you? [pagan] who once disobeyed God, but now have received mercy because of their [Jewish] disobedience, so they also have now not submitted to mercy, so that now they themselves may receive mercy. For God has confined all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all (Rom. 11:30-32).

 Spend five minutes pondering these verses and you will be at first stunned and then amazed, not because you are left in the dark, but because the light is so blinding that you can barely believe what you are seeing.

«"Incomprehensible" but Illuminated

At another time, Paul describes his revelation of God's ways as incomprehensible. And the right not in that it leaves us in the foothills without knowledge.

 To me, the least of all saints, this grace was given: to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to make everyone see what is the administration of the mystery, which from the beginning of time has been hidden in God, who created all things [through Christ] (Eph. 3:8-9).

This text not means: «Sorry, friends, but the riches of Christ are in the darkness of secrets and cannot be revealed.» The text says the opposite: «God called me,» says Paul, «and gave me the gift to reveal this mystery! What I write about Christ is… it "the unsearchable riches of Christ"!
They are incomprehensible in three ways: (1) They were «hidden from ages in God»—but now revealed! (2) They can only be known through divine revelation, not mere human wisdom—and Paul writes this revelation; (3) there will always be more to see as you undertake the task of understanding divinely inspired revelation and then ascending to the heavenly Himalayas.

To know that which surpasses knowledge

This last point is confirmed in Paul's prayer in the next chapter of Ephesians. He prays that we

 May you be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ, which surpasses knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:18-19).

 Here it is! Thanks to the amazing revelation of God's ways in Christ – through the writings of the apostle Paul – we are given "«to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge»"We climb higher and higher into the mountain ranges of God's wonders to understand what was previously incomprehensible, only to realize that the mountains are rising higher and higher.

Confident Sherpas

Paul was not one of those men who are content to live in the foothills of revelation, delivering eloquent speeches about the value of the "mystery" above the low-hanging clouds. Paul knew that God had called him not to hide, and preach «"the unsearchable riches of Christ.".
Paul knew that God is not glorified when we linger in the valley, endlessly extolling the value of an incomprehensible mystery. We truly honor God when we accept his invitation to lead us into his incomprehensible judgments and unfathomable ways—when we treat the writers of Scripture as confident Sherpas in the Himalayas of God’s revelation.