Knowing the One Who Knows - Part 1

Guess what?

WE DON’T HAVE TO KNOW EVERYTHING!!

This hit home to me as I listened to some messages by Joyce Meyer. (The series she was doing was about freedom.)

She was saying that if we come to Him like little children, we don’t have to question. We just TRUST, knowing that our God, the ALL-KNOWING ONE, knows what He is doing. We just need to believe that God IS in control. We can then rest in Him.

However, that doesn’t wipe out our brains. God doesn’t intend for us to be mindless zombies. He has given us this mass of matter in between our ears to think with. So how do we find the balance between trusting and thinking?

When we acknowledge that God is GOD and that He knows, and that we DON’T, we are showing reverence for Him. This is like what it says in Proverbs, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” (1:7) That is where our learning starts.

We send our kids to school to learn. Ideally, we would want our kids to learn from the best, a teacher who knows his/her stuff. What a privilege it is if they can learn off a master!! And we would want our kids to respect that teacher so that they can begin to learn. With no respect, the learning is very limited.

In the same way, we are kids in God’s school. And what better way to learn, than to learn off THE Master!? The Divine Architect of the whole universe! That same One who had a plan and purpose for us way back there at the beginning of time.

With a teacher like that, it is easy to see how respect and reverence for Him (the fear of the Lord) is the beginning of knowledge. With an attitude like that, we’re SURE to learn.

“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
“Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay him?”
For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans 11:33-36, NIV)

Interestingly, the very next couple of verses after that, in Roman 12, say:

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:1-2, NIV)

And as Paul says in another place:

“For ‘who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?”‘ But we have the mind of Christ.”  (1 Corinthians 2:16, NKJ)

Just one final comment….

… Notice it says the “renewal” of our minds and not the “removal”!!! And that renewal comes by reading the “Master’s Blueprint”, the Bible. :-)  And through reading, we can come to know the Master personally.  See the next two post…