Hi all. Just a simple thought I wanted to share as I sit at the computer on a wet Friday morning, getting my thoughts together for the weekend, after two of the most pastorally intense weeks I can recall. There is so much that happens in this broken world that is beyond our ability to understand and process. There are things that happen in the lives of those we love where we barely have the words to speak. At times like this there is an old favourite verse I turn to,

Deuteronomy 29:29, “the secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law”.

Right there is a great truth: God is God, and we are not. There are things he has revealed to us, and there are things he has not revealed to us. There are things we need to know, and things we don’t need to know.

Of course, as believers standing this side of the cross, there has been something greater revealed to us than Moses could speak of in Deuteronomy. In a very real sense, the greatest “secret” - how God would save the world - is out! (see 1 Corinthians 2:7-8, Colossians 1:26). But that still doesn’t mean God tells us everything that he is doing in his world. What it does mean, however, is that he has so wonderfully revealed his love to us in giving his own Son, we can trust him in all things. We don’t know exactly why things happen the way we they do, but we can trust the one who does know. He certainly doesn’t stand distant from our brokeness. In the cross we see him enter the brokenness and take it on himself.

The God who gave his own Son for our sin, that’s the God we can trust in all things. And what great freedom we find when we rejoice that he is God and we are not. What a relief that we don’t have to understand everything (as if we could!) but instead trust the one who does.