Perspectives on Understanding

Dear Reader,

I'm sure you can offer questions that I couldn't possibly answer about why God does certain things or what some stories in the Bible mean for us now. But I think we too often give up when someone can't explain something to us. Whatever happened to good old fashioned gumption? Haha. Just because we are confused by something and seem to not have an answer doesn't mean that the answer doesn't exist. I well know what it is to want to ignore something if it doesn't make sense. Sometimes professors can't tell me what is actually happening during a chemical reaction or explain why a certain calculation happens to work to give us the right answer. That doesn't mean I'm supposed to just accept it and move on or ignore it and stop using it. The best professors will tell you, when no one seems to have an answer, that's when you don't give up. That's when you start looking, ask questions, find new resources. You can figure it out. The same is true with the Bible and God. If you don't understand something and friends, a preacher, no one can explain it to you. That's when you take a step back, tell God you don't understand but you want to. It may take days, months, even years to understand something or God may choose that you do not understand something. I won't lie to you. He may ask the unthinkable, that you take something on faith ;) But if you seek the truth, you will find truth and/or peace. Some of the greatest moments in my walk with God have been, not when I understood something I was struggling with, but when I found that I had gained peace about not knowing something. When I realized I didn't need to know that particular thing at that moment and it was okay. God is still perfect, with knowledge far beyond mine. I am still human, with an infinite amount to learn. And that's okay. As a matter of fact, that is wonderful. Even though I don't understand, I serve a God who does! And I keep seeking Him above all. Seeking His truth and His answers. Finding blessing in the very fact that He allows us to question Him. "Who am I, that I should try to answer God or even reason with Him?" Job 9:14. But Job goes ahead and has his words with God! God sets him straight in the end, but He let Job speak. We serve that same God. Just try to grasp the intensity of that...I don't think I am quite able to. It's one reason Life is such and Adventure!

Blessings <3