Day 97 with David: Some things are not for us to understand.

“Lord, my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Nor with things too profound for me. Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭131:1-2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Anyone who has spent time with children, understands the phenomenon of the bottomless pit of, “Why?” Many times, in trying to explain something to a child, you cannot get to the end of the explanation because every part of the answer brings more questioning.

Think about it, when it comes right down to it, most things, if not all things concerning our existence, our world, are never completely explained. This is because we take some things as “given” for which we really have no explanation.

Why do we fall if we step off a cliff? The answer: gravity. But where does gravity come from? The answer: the mass of objects causes them to have attraction. But why will objects of different masses fall at the same rate in a vacuum? OK, I’ll stop. Now, your knowledge of physics will determine how many questions you can answer in this line of questioning. But eventually, EVERYONE will come to the point of not knowing the next answer. And, those who pretend that they can answer every complex question all the way to the end, is answering with theories. Now that’s a fact!

I’m not trying to cause confusion here. What I’m saying is that there’s more that we don’t know than what we do know. But there will always be people who don’t know what they don’t know; we call those people, know-it-all’s. Ironically, know-it-all‘s, make themselves more foolish than those of “lesser intellect” on whom they may look with disdain. Why? Because, at least the person who is more simple in their thinking, knows what they don’t know. And many times, the “simple” are more teachable—particularly concerning things of the Spirit—than those who fancy themselves to be “intellectual.”

Jesus, after remarking about the many places which had rejected Him and His teaching, made an interesting statement to the Father:

“At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭11:25‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

You see, those who were “babes” in their approach to truth, received His message. The religious leaders—assuming themselves to be very “learned”—rejected His message; it didn’t fit in with what they thought they already knew.

Many years ago, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Janet, what you think you know about Me, is keeping you from knowing Me.” I did not realize that I had made “holy,” my way of thinking about the Lord. But since He pointed this out to me, I have received understanding of so much more, now that I know what I don’t know; or at least, I’ve begun to know what I don’t know.

In our portion from Psalms today we see David expressing his simple trust in the Lord and likening himself to the child who is calm in its mother’s arms. You see, the child does not have to know why it feels calm in its Mother‘s arms, it just does.

Now, no one can read what David has written, know what he accomplished, and think him to be intellectually challenged. But, he never conflated the things he had learned and was able to do with having perfect knowledge of all things. He knew he did not have perfect knowledge of all things. But he also knew that the Lord does have that perfect knowledge. In another place, in expressing the fact that the Lord knew everything about him, David again remarks on his lack of ability to comprehend the greatness of the Lord’s level of knowledge and understanding:

“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Understand, my normal tendency is to be very analytic; I like to figure things out. There’s nothing wrong with liking to figure things out. When it becomes wrong is when we think that if we can’t figure it out, if it doesn’t make sense, we’ll have no part of it. Sometimes, we develop an answer to a question that is not for us to answer and hold to our “answer” as if it is written on the same stone with the law of God.

Trusting the Lord involves knowing that He knows what we don’t know. We are to just follow Him and believe Him.

For today let us know and understand what David knew:

Some things are not for us to understand.

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