Are you okay not knowing everything?

God Knows Best Even When We Don't Understand

Sometimes a young child does not understand what a loving parent is doing and the young child might even interpret the parent’s actions as mean or cruel (for instance a doctor’s visit that involves a shot).  The truth is that the parent knows much more than the child and, frankly, the child doesn’t even know enough to realize how much he/she doesn’t know.

This can happen with our interpretation of God’s ways.  The gap between what God knows and understands (which is literally everything) and what we know and understand (which is extremely limited) is vast.  So, there may be times when we simply cannot comprehend why things are happening.  And God’s ways may seem to be unkind.

Be assured that God loves us and that He knows what’s best even when it is hard for us to understand.

God's Ways Are Best

God’s ways are best.  We don’t always understand His ways.  And we may get frustrated, or impatient, or bothered by what’s happening.  But I trust that He truly loves me, that He knows more than I do, and that His ways are right.

God's Ways Are Higher Than Our Ways

As mankind progresses and science & technology continue to make astonishing advances, one of the things that the wise person notices is that there is more and more that we do not know and have not grasped. It makes me think of this verse:  “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” [God] Isaiah 55:9