Comfortable Not Knowing

From your early childhood, you had an inquisitive mind.  You wanted answers to your questions.  When answers were not given to you, you became agitated and uneasy.  Your great desire was to have answers to questions that you asked.

That feeling of uneasiness from unanswered questions carried over into your adulthood.  This was even true of your understanding of the Bible.  You wanted to understand everything within its pages.  Unanswered Bible questions made you feel uneasy.  Mark Twain, that great author of yesteryear, says this about unanswered Bible questions: “Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture which they cannot understand, but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which puzzle me are those which I do understand.”  That makes a lot of sense!  The Bible verses you understand makes you realize the greatness of God.

One verse in the Bible, that underscores that thought, is Romans 11:33: “Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!”  Look at that verse closely.  There is a deep, deep “depth” to the “wisdom and knowledge of God.”  In other words, who can understand God’s wisdom or God’s knowledge?  No one can.  It is far beyond human understanding.  The verse goes further to say that “His judgments” are beyond your ability to search and understand it.  Thus, “His ways” are far beyond your knowledge; that is what “unfathomable His ways” actually means.

Yes, you need to search the Holy Bible and try your best to understand everything within its cover.  Just be comfortable not knowing everything within it!