“The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.” - Deuteronomy 29v29
Do you ever wonder why things happen in our Christian lives the way they do? Sometimes all the things we think should happen don’t, and, the things that we think should not happen do.
God is not going to show us all that He is doing. Isaiah informs us that His ways and thoughts are not our ways and thoughts, so we can never hope to understand it all. This is where we are challenged to trust Him by faith.
Here in Deuteronomy God informs His people that there are things that are going to be hidden from them. These secret things belong to the Lord. In their case, it was the gospel that would be revealed later. Moses says here that since there are secret things, the best thing we can do is to just trust Him and obey the words of the Law.
There is an obvious principle here for us. God still has secret things that He is not going to choose to reveal to us. All we see is a very limited scope of life. We all have spiritual tunnel vision so we see things only from our perspective.
However, like Israel, there are some things that God has revealed to us in His word. Our best action is to simply trust and obey His word. Its not easy to live the secret things up to Him, but that is what He asks of us.
Let us live today by the things He has revealed and trust Him to handle the secret things.
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