What I Don't Know Could Be For A Reason

One thing I've learned in my Christian walk is I don't have all the answers to life's complex questions. I don't know why there is disease in the world, hunger, crime, bad things that happen to good people. I don't know everything about heaven. Heck, after 20 years of marriage, I don't know everything about the complexity of my wife. She still amazes me.

I do know that God didn't intend to have all these bad things in his original plan. He created the perfect garden in the perfect world and put man and woman in it. Then when sin entered into the world it all changed. In his final sermon before his death Moses reviewed the covenant with God's chosen people and it included their blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience.

But in Deuterononmy 29:29 Moses tells us why things might be a little foggy. "The Lord our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions."

This verse is saying that God is the one who is in charge and in control and he reveals things to us when he wants to, but he also is saying that we don't have to answer for what we don't know. This however, is not an excuse for ignorance. If God has revealed something to us in his word and we don't find it because we don't read it doesn't mean it's a secret. It just means we weren't looking.

The word I like in this verse is accountable. It's a word we don't like much today. We're always looking to pass blame when we mess up. If people were accountable for their choices then we probably wouldn't have so many trial lawyers. God will hold us accountable for how we treated the spouse he gave us, how we parented our kids, what we did with the resources he gave us.

But the number one thing we will be held into account for is what we did with God's Son, Jesus. God sent him to earth to die a horrific death on the cross for the sins of you and I. Did we receive the gift or choose to deny it. Did we begin eternal life by getting to know His Son? Do we know Him more this year than last year?

Okay everyone, let's not allow Jesus to be a secret to us.