Presenting ...
... a weekly letter of encouragement.
August 16, 1993
Good Morning!
Why do we feel that we are owed an explanation for everything?
In exacting an explanation from God, faith is no longer required,
and the mystery and mystique of life is sanitized
out. How terribly boring...and presumptuous!
THE FACT IS, GOD OWES US NO EXPLANATIONS. For example:
How do you explain the fact that John the Baptist and
Peter are imprisoned for sharing their faith. John is executed
and Peter is miraculously released?
How do you explain the fact that the people of faith cited
in Hebrews 11:
- Conquered kingdoms, shut the mouths of lions, and escaped
the sword?
- While others were stoned, sawn in two, and left destitute?
You don't. And God often chooses to give us no explanations.
Several great men in the Scriptures accepted the mystery
of God's ways:
SOLOMON: "Just as you do not know the path of
the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant
woman, so you do not know the activity of God..."
(Ecclesiastes 11:5)
ISAIAH: "For My thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways My ways...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)
PAUL: "How unsearchable are His judgments and
unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord...?"
(Romans 11:33, 34)
This side of eternity, our perspective and attitude should
be thus:
"At present we are men looking at puzzling reflections
in a mirror. The time will come when we shall see reality whole
and face to face! At present all I know is a little fraction
of the truth, but the time will come when I shall know it as fully
as God now knows me." (I Corinthians 13:12 Phillips Translation)
Have a great week!
Dwight Hill
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