The most complex puzzles we can create can eventually be mastered by others. The complexity of a chess challenge requires the concentration of sharp minds to operate a bold strategy to defeat a constantly changing force of opposition; a moving target. Yet, with practice and continued exercise of the brain muscle even a novice chess player can become a brilliant strategist. The things we are able to develop or create are always subject to the dissection of more advanced thinking. Even if we never had experience in certain areas, with a little work and persistence, we can figure them out. In our amazing discovery of many of the, so-called, secrets of life, we have declared ourselves masters of the universe, and we are not! Our abilities, though amazing, are still very limited.
Human explanations for divine occurrences and principles are not nearly as accurately defined or resolved. When our curiosities are piqued we demand answers (or a sign) and although we are willing to work for it, many cannot accept that some of those answers will never be revealed to us in this life. Why not? Because Christianity is not so much about what we know, as it is about who we know. Faith (in God) over self reliance is the opposite of many of the mixed messages we’ve received since the time we were small children.
Challenged by a new way of thinking, many begin the search for truth in a whirling circular journey bent on disproving the things they don’t understand. Always ending up back where they started out, they conclude, “if I can’t understand it, it can’t be right”. And like a puppy with a chew toy, they remain so focused on a counter argument, their hearts close to the worry-free grace, that is the answer. While we listen intently for what sounds like the contradiction, we miss the answer. When the answer is “it is not for you to know” we find that unacceptable. We may have missed the words “at this time” or “for your own good” that may have been implied at the end of the sentence.
Do we challenge the Word for answers or are we just looking for an argument? Do we think we should have all the answers? All the answers? I repeat that statement to summarize the level of expectation it implies, yet, it is the spirit of the inquisition that will likely cause God to deny the answer. If we had all the answers, why would we need God?
By now, in the year 2016, we have seen enough unexplained confusion to easily conclude that we don’t have all the answers but, in reality, God loves to give answers. But God doesn’t work like Siri and even though proper diction is not a deal-breaker, He does require a relationship, and the answers are complimentary. If you’re not getting answers to your questions you should check your relationship, then your intensions and if your relationship is solid and your intensions pure, he promises to grant wisdom.
The fact is, there is nothing that we cannot know except those things that make God, God; the things that make Him holy; His mysteries. “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens above – what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below – what can you know? Job 11:7-8. (NIV). The New Living Translation poses those questions, who are you, and, what do you know? Those are good admonishments, applicable to challenging God’s word for “sport”, but those questions were spoken to Job, admonishing him for demanding answers from God. Job’s relationship with God was his pass to demand answers from God, himself. Demanding answers from the Source of all answers is the assurance that we will either know the answer or learn to accept the mystery. Without the relationship and the faith there will never be clarity; only more questions and more arguments.
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