“This is what the Lord says – the Lord who made the earth, who formed and established it, whose name is the Lord: Ask Me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.” (Jeremiah 33:2-3 NLT)
What do you want to know about the future? How long you will live? How you will die? Will it be quick and painless or will you agonize for days, weeks, months? Will you ever get out of debt? Will you ever be married? Have kids? Own a home? Get to travel? See outer space?
Our minds are flooded with questions about all kinds of topics, but I find it quite amusing we rarely ask questions about God. We seem content that God is God and that’s all we need to know, but is it? What if the answers to the gnawing questions of our soul could find answers in Him? What if knowing, loving, and being fully devoted to the Holy God gave us more than the answers to our questions?
How often have you wondered: “Am I good enough to get into heaven? Why do I continue to sin so much when I sincerely believe I love God? Why am I caught in this trap of feeling useless and worthless? If God is so good, why can’t I feel His presence or hear His voice? When will I stop feeling so excluded from all that others are saying God is doing?” “Why isn’t He doing anything in and through me?”
These and many other questions can rock our soul and warp our perspective, not only on ourselves, but on God. We tend to focus on the fact that God is loving, kind, generous, all powerful, ever-present, but He’s also all-knowing. God knows everything there is to know about everything.
My wife and I are watching an old series on TV called “Bones.” It’s got like a zillion seasons because it’s so interesting. Yes, it’s a bit “steamy,” but if you can get through that, what fascinates me is how they can find bones and identify what species it is, gender, and many other things including how they died and how long they’ve been dead. They can often determine the environment in which they died, even the specific region.
Why is that intriguing? Because they learned how to do that from the Lord! And I can hear the groans: “No, dummy, they went to school and learned from professors and research specialists.” Yeh, probably, but where did the knowledge they have originate? Here’s the truth: no one knows anything except that knowledge originated in the mind of God.
We would know nothing about anything except God opens the channels of information and opens our minds to receive it. Yes, of course, He gives some people higher IQ’s and a greater capacity to learn, but any of us can learn anything if we’re willing to make the effort to dig it out. Many very brilliant people don’t have very good people skills largely because they’re so gifted not many others can relate to their brilliance. People are intimidated by their knowledge and ability.
I’d like to be a fly on the wall when they meet the Lord. Talk about brilliant – try on “all-knowing”! The most brilliant scholar will feel like a kindergartner in comparison to the Lord. All the questions of science will be answered as if they were 1 + 1. What’s my point?
Whatever questions you have, you can find their answers in Jesus. He’s more than enough. But here’s the deal, He’ll only share what He knows we can understand. If He explained the answer to every question, He’d likely lose us because we don’t have the capacity to understand as He understands.
But here’s the best part: one day we’ll see as He sees! We’ll know as He knows! You know what that’s called? Heaven!
Food for thought.
Blessings, Ed 😊
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