Yes, there are times when I have my questions. Times when I doubt God, when I wonder if all of this that I believe is really true. This is because I am human. We humans, want to understand everything and know everything, but our very nature keeps us from doing so. Our finite and narrow minds can only see things in so many ways when there are multiple other scenarios that we cannot even fathom. Besides, if we understood and knew everything God knew, would that not cease to make him God?
"Do you think you can explain the mystery of God?
Do you think you can diagram God Almighty?
God is far higher than you can imagine,
far deeper than you can comprehend,
(Job 11:7-8, The Message)
This does not mean that we do not try to understand. God wants us to search him out and grow in our knowledge of him but we have to recognize that there will always be opportunity to doubt. We must have faith.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD
(Isaiah 1:18, KJV)
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
(2 Peter 3:18, KJV)
There will come a time when God will reveal to us all of the questions of our hearts but for now sometimes we have to be okay with not understanding. We continue to look and to search but that doesn't mean we have to forsake God just because we cannot explain every tiny little thing that we come across. God gives us plenty of evidence to believe in him and plenty of room not to believe. Have faith and know from experience and from our existence that God is real. And know that it is okay to have questions and to search for answers but may all this rest on faith!
We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
(1 Corinthians 13:12, The Message)
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