"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us.





Deuteronomy 29:29a ESV





I love knowledge! I'm very curious and love to know the"why" of things. I love knowledge so much that when I don't know something, it keeps me up at night. And when I finally learned it, it keeps me up with excitement to share it. You might say I am addicted to knowledge.





However, there's still plenty I don't know and much more that God will not reveal in this life. As a matter of fact, God’s mind is so much more complex than mine and he can know so much more, it’s not even in the same universe as far as comparing what I can know versus what he can. Isaiah puts it this way, ““For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

‭‭(Isaiah‬ ‭55:8-9‬ ‭ESV).





Just to put Isaiah’s words into perspective (and please note that my comparison will fall very short of what he was saying), let’s consider the lowest point in our atmosphere. The lowest point of our atmosphere is about ‬12 miles above the ground. This is just barely above the clouds. To make this number much more impressive, 12 miles equals 63,360 feet. Let’s put this even into even more personal terms. A fall from 150 feet is enough to kill a person. That’s 422 times less than the distance from the toposphere to the ground.





You may wondering, “where is he going with all this math and science?” Well, think about it. If God’s thoughts (His mind) is at least 63,360 feet above what I can know. And if it only takes a fall from 150 feet high to be fatal, even the smartest among us would “die” if God revealed even 10% of his overall knowledge to us.





That just underscores the majesty and greatness of our God and the insignificant nature of our intellect. So as far as I’m concerned, as much as I love knowledge and want to figure everything out, it is perfectly ok not to know the secret things that are the Lord’s as Deutoronomy 29:29 tells us. After all, as much as I want to go to heaven and spend eternity with Jesus, I’m not in a hurry for an untimely death due to my “need to know”.





So the next time that you’re going through a difficult time and have the “need” to know everything about the situation, remember that God knows much more than us and you would never be able to fully grasp what God already knows.





“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.”

‭‭Habakkuk‬ ‭1:5‬ ‭ESV‬‬



