Does it ever feel like God is keeping secrets from us? Like He knows what's going to happen, or what the right response is, or what is true in the middle of a gray area, but He's just keeping it to Himself? It certainly feels like that to me sometimes.
As I read God's Word, I know, I can tell, that God reveals things that He doesn't necessarily have to. He gives multiple prophesies about Jesus throughout the Old Testament. Even just in Genesis, God promises Abraham that he will not only become the father of many nations, but that his descendants will travel to another land for 400 years and that God will bring them back at the end of it (Genesis 15, several chapters before his son Isaac is even born), which is exactly what happened in Egypt. Joseph (which if you don't know is Abraham's great-grandson) saved his family from famine by providing for them in Egypt, and then the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years before Pharaoh finally let God's people go and they started on their way to the promised land. Abraham was never going to see those events happen, but God told him about it anyway.
Then, while reading through Revelation, I've seen so many examples of God sharing what is going to happen but has not yet occurred. He didn't have to provide any of this book or any warnings of what the end will look like, but He chose to. Why? Because He can, and because He loves people enough not to warn them of His wrath and leave them without hope. That's why He sent Jesus. Jesus warned people who weren't living for God that they were going to receive wrath, and He died in our place to save us from that wrath and the judgment we rightly deserve for our sins. God is so good!
Yet I still find myself in so many unknowns in the day-to-day. I wish sometimes that God would provide the answers to my questions. I don't know what's going to happen with my work based on the changes that are taking place. I'm not sure what to expect for my friends who are in rough situations, or how to best help them. I don't have answers. I feel like I don't have any answers regarding the specific instances in my own life. Yet, I have so many answers from God about what's going to happen in this world about things that are so much bigger than me and my little circle. I want to know what to expect. I wish I knew what certain "unknowns" meant. But ultimately, I know who is in control, and that's enough. It doesn't always feel like enough, but it is.
Sometimes, I just need a reminder of that. If you do too, I hope this provided you with that. That's simply all I'm pondering right now, but I hope you'll keep pondering too.
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