I Don't Have To Understand, I Am Understood

Knowledge

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist

Rom 1:20-23
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. NASU

Man’s thirst for knowledge is one that is not easily satisfied. We find that out early when a child asks the “why” questions. There is a need to understand and a need to put our arms around abstract things that we don’t understand. We feel the need to corral the horses, and to fence in the herd so as to get a 360 view, and to take a long look, and refine, and understand what knowledge we have.

But, is that always best, can we, and will we always be able to understand or figure it all out? I’m sure that I will not be able to, there are some things that I don’t think I will ever understand until I meet my Lord, and King, face to face. Still, that doesn’t mean that I have to have a horrible feeling of doubt or fear within me, I don’t completely understand Trigonometry, but I don’t have a fear of math teachers.

Mark Twain, American Humorist, and Writer said this of our need for knowledge “We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.” Did you hear what he was saying? If you really knew and understood everything of God, how would it affect your life? My belief is that if I knew and understood everything, I would be like God and we know where that leads, it made Satan, Satan.

So the things that I don’t know and can’t explain about God are what makes, Him, God. Me, I can’t understand so many things, why He would choose to spend time worrying about someone like me, and how all of these things in my life are a part of His “bigger” plan for me. Oh the wonder of it all, as the song says, “just to think that God loves me.” If we knew too much, I know enough of human nature to say that what we know too much of we tend to ignore, and take for granted

So maybe that is one of our biggest problems as Christians. Once we think we have Him all figured out, we do just that, ignore, and take for granted the Love, Wonder and Glory of who He is, and lose the fear of, and respect for, our God…God Bless.

Pastor William