Today’s Bible Reading:
Deuteronomy 28-29; Galatians 6
Topic: Responsibility
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 29:29
29 “The secret
things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong
to us and to our children forever…” (Deut
29:29 NKJV)
OBSERVATION:
What are secret things? If something is a secret it is
something that is unknown to me. It may be known to someone, and to that
someone it is not a secret, but as long as it remains unknown to me it remains
to me a secret.
This passage declares a truth that cannot be disputed: God
knows things that are beyond our understanding. He is the omniscient Creator;
alongside Him I am as a mindless microbe. The other truth of this passage is
that I am only responsible before God for the things that have been
revealed—things that I and my fellow microbes have been given the means to
discover—things that God has purposed for us to know.
APPLICATION:
Some microbes think so highly of themselves as to not
believe in God. They apparently believe that anything beyond their own
understanding doesn’t exist. They do not realize that the beginning of wisdom
is in realizing the infinite measure of that which they do not know. God is far
greater than any creature can fathom. While I cannot comprehend all that God
is, I may yet know the reality of His existence. His love and His presence and
His companionship are part of that which has been revealed to me, not by means
of my own cognitive reasoning, but by means of spiritual revelation. This is
part of “those things which are revealed”—those
things that, “belong to us and to our
children forever.”
PRAYER:
Omnipotent and Omniscient Creator, thank You for the truth
you have revealed to me and continue to uncover to my limited being day by day
as I walk in faith. Thank You for Your guidance in my pursuit of both
intellectual and spiritual knowledge day by day. Thank You that, while You are
vast beyond human comprehension, yet somehow I know Your love and the touch of
eternal life. Thank You for providing that I may have relationship with You.
Through Christ. Amen. -AP
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