Are you okay not knowing everything?

The Staggering Mind of God

There are decisions we could have made in life but instead we chose to do something else. Instead of choosing A, B or C we chose D.

What if we would have chosen A, B or C instead of D? What would have happened? What chain of consequences would have been set into effect? What different choices would other people have made as a result of our changed course of action and what would be the effect of those choices?

It is beyond our ability to know such things.

The scenario I have presented only involves one person’s decisions and four possible choices. In reality, we could multiply the future possibilities described above to involve every person on earth and rather than four choices, the choices would be much wider.

Now, who could possibly know the virtually limitless possible future scenarios?

No one. Right? It is ridiculous to even suggest that anyone could have such knowledge.

Except God. Think of how extraordinary a mind would have to be to actually know how all of the future contingencies resulting from billions of humans exercising free will would actually play out. In the truest sense of this term, it is “mindboggling.”

What is described above doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface, however, it is a tiny little glimpse into the awesome breadth and brilliance of the mind of God.

“Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.” Psalm 145:3

We Have A Divinely Inspired Potential

Before you and I existed in any physical sense, we first existed as an idea in the mind of God.  Just thinking about that concept suggests to me that we have exciting, important, divinely inspired potential for extraordinary possibilities in our lives.