November 2018
By James MacDonald “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.” - Deuteronomy 29:29 As you make your way through life, how often do you have questions you’d like to ask of God? And how many of those questions start with, “Why?” We struggle with the concept of God having “secret things.” He shouldn’t keep secrets from us, right?—not from those of us who’ve been born again into His family through faith in Jesus. We’re important to him, aren’t we? We contribute to his kingdom, don’t we? As people who play at least a small part in what he’s doing
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to focus on what God has chosen not today on the earth, we can be inclined to to tell us instead of being satisfied with think he owes us some answers when we everything he’s told us already—”the ask. And why not? Why wouldn’t he? things that are revealed, “the things that do Asking why and not being given an “belong to us”—because, taken together, answer settles with finality our minuscule the Bible says they add up to “all things role in his infinite plan, and we have a that pertain hard time living to life and within the “We don’t have to godliness”(2 implications of know every Why when Peter 1:3). that reality. It E v e r y t h ing doesn’t square we know the Who that that matters we with what we knows them all.” already know— know of his how we got love for us and here, where we’re going, how it ends, who what we expect of our relationship. When wins. God is not up in heaven debating God doesn’t answer our “whys,” it makes with himself whether he probably should us feel small, and we don’t like feeling have told us a little bit more. In no way small. But isn’t it just like sinful, selfish people
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has he shorted us on any vital information. In fact, he’s gone beyond it. “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him,” he tells us in James 1:5. He’s promised to give us wisdom when we seek Him in the midst of our trials. “Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding” (Proverbs 3:13). He’s created us with the capacity for being taught by him and learning through our own life experience. “Reprove a wise man, and he will love you,” we’re told in Proverbs 9:8. Even the knowledge gained through other people’s challenging of us is a gift from God to our easily confused
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