Can You Know What I Know?

Most of us pride ourselves on being educated, well-informed, and confident in this life. But let me ask, “What do we really know?”

We research and study many subjects: the human body, animals, birds, marine life, insects, the ground beneath our feet, and the vast sky above. But sadly, the knowledge we gain is limited by our finite minds.

Thinking we know how our bodies work and what it takes to heal them, we forge ahead with educated guesses. Yet, many times the answer is beyond our capacity to know, and doctors are forced to say, “There’s nothing more we can do.” Researchers and virologists study diseases and viruses, and just when they think they have a cure for one, another pops up out of nowhere, and it’s back to the drawing board.

Over the years, we ingenious humans have gained incredible knowledge. In fact, I heard a statistic this week saying knowledge doubles every four hours. That’s mind-boggling as well as prophetic. God said to Daniel, “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”[1]

And wow, has knowledge ever increased in our day. I mean, we’ve learned to build tall skyscrapers, mammoth bridges, beautiful homes, glorious gardens, and so much more. But then, rushing wind, flooding water, raging fire, or even a man-made colossal ship can take them out in an instant.

The natural disasters, called acts of God, meaning things humans cannot control, are not acts He performed. They are the cause and effect of the systems He built into His creation design. But knowing how frail humans are, why did He allow these types of calamities? Good question.

Is it possible He did this so

we would recognize our imperfection and inadequacy

compared to God Most High?

Yet even with this awareness, would we really know or see our need? Not the need to work harder to stop the tragedies, but the need to humble ourselves and pursue God, for He said, “…you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”[2]

And as we seek Him, He asks us some pretty amazing questions. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who shut in the sea with doors? Have you commanded the morning since your days began? Where is the way to the dwelling of light?  Have you entered the treasury of snow…or hail? Can you bind the cluster of the Seven Stars, or loose the belt of Orion?”[3]

We gasp, shake our heads, and answer,

“No, no, no, a thousand times, no.”

But then, in the midst of His questioning, God asks the most important one, “Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart?”[4]

In other words, where and how did you develop this capacity to learn and know in the first place? Evolutionists say it happened by chance. But that’s a lie. All came from God, for He created us in His image. And while our finite minds keep us from knowing everything, God has allowed us to know some things beyond the physical.

We CAN KNOW His name alone is the LORD, and He is “…the Most High over all the earth.”[5] We can know God’s testimonies, His righteousness, His judgment for sin, and that Jesus, the Son of Man, has power on earth to forgive sins. We can know this same Jesus, who Himself knew NO SIN, became SIN for us as He hung on the cross, shed His blood, and died in our place that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.[6]

And we can know this One who died for us

also

 AROSE the third day.[7]

As Israel’s King David prophesied hundreds of years before, His body never saw corruption or decay. For, after three days and nights in Sheol, Jesus Christ walked out of the grave – ALIVE.[8]

Friend, YOU CAN KNOW what I know. But what do I know? “…I know my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God.”[9]

Please choose to know Him too.

[1] Daniel 12:4

[2] Jeremiah 29:13

[3] Job 38:4-31

[4] Job 38:36

[5] Psalm 83:18

[6] Psalm 119:125; Micah 6:5; Job 19:29; Mark 2:10; II Corinthians 5:21

[7] Luke 24:1-10, 36-43; John 20:26-29

[8] Psalm 16:10; Matthew 28:5-6

[9] Job 19:25-26