There is no question that there are many elements of our world that are beyond our understanding. Science struggles continually to discover the secrets of our existence and the secrets of our universe. But science continues to encounter new puzzles, and like the layers of an onion, each layer that is understood reveals another layer, another puzzle.

It seems like there are limits to our ability to understand. It also seems like we strive to push the limits. We strive to expand the outer limits.

Perhaps those limits are there by design.

No doubt we engage in a constant guessing game of trying to understand the “whys” of the actions and intentions of a Creator. Why would He place some knowledge beyond those outer limits? Why would He allow humanity to struggle to cure disease and learn to mend our bodies? Why would He limit human senses to the five we recognize when there are other possibilities?

Perhaps second-guessing our Creator is a dangerous game, and one we are destined to lose, but that may be the purpose.

If God created humans with free will, those humans could use that free will to sit back and watch the world go by. If that was the extent of human ambition, we would still be hunkered around the fire in the back of our caves. We wouldn’t have wide-screen TV’s, air-conditioning, or Google. Our lives would be eat, sleep and reproduce.

So, perhaps God intended for humans to always have that hunger for something better, something new. Perhaps God used the old carrot-and-stick trick to encourage us to continue to seek out the secrets of our existence. By tantalizing us with hints of secrets beyond our immediate reach, God inspires us to achieve more.

We can never expect to develop the knowledge and understanding of an all-powerful God, but the hope that we can always learn more, keeps us moving forward. At the same time, the knowledge that we can never achieve that ultimate goal gives us an appreciation for our Creator.