Posted on 08/11/2022 11:05:17 AM PDT by JAG 5000
Many of our intellectual problems and difficult questions can be pleasantly and reassuringly stored here:
"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and our children forever."
Deuteronomy 29:29
And . . .
Regarding some questions the Lord Jesus said:
"It is not for you to know." Acts 1:7
And . . .
Not even the great Apostle Paul had all the answers:
"Now I know in part" __Paul 1 Corinthians 13:12
We will get the answers to our difficult questions when we get home to Heaven.
Meanwhile we wait patiently and we "Have faith in God"__ The Lord Jesus (Mark 11:22)
Thoughts?
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100% agree. Anything I get too stuck on, I put into that category.
Especially a lot of stories from Genesis. I would like to know the “rest of the story” like Paul Harvey used to say.
If we are in heaven will we care who shot JFK, what Hillary did election night 2016, or was the 2020 election stolen?
would you still be you if you didn’t care anymore?
I can’t locate the source but I clearly remember reading in a narrative about attacks on Jews that a Jewish woman said in response to someone asking how God lets these things happen to innocent people:
“On Earth there are no answers. In Heaven there are no questions.”
Some of us will.................😉
Tempted and tried, we’re oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long;
While there are others living about us,
Never molested, though in the wrong.
Refrain:
Farther along we’ll know more about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.
Excellent post! The gap is to be filled with faith.
I have long believed that we are put on this earth to accomplish something. What that something is is not our privilege to know in this life. When we have accomplished whatever we were sent here to do, that’s when we will be called home.
I do my best and the rest I leave up to my maker.
If I get to heaven, I will be too happy to be worried about the answers.
That’s a clever turn of phrase, but what does it mean?
Most people will be fortunate to HAVE some questions.
I think that's true. And it's almost a little dissappointing in a way. Right now, I'd really like to know some things and it's sad to think when I finally could, I won't care.
Did Jenny have a crush on me in 4th grade? At that time, that would have been crucial information. But now it's not important to know the answer and if someone told me, I'd shug my shoulders and move on the next thing in my adult lfe.
That is an interesting question. Maybe we will know but won’t care. idk.
The Apostle Paul wrote it like this in what a lot of us call the Love Chapter of the Bible:
1st Corinthian 13:12 -- For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known
All those things we thought were important, are just dust.
Seekers - Keep A Dream In Your Pocket Extended Fan Version
Keep a dream in your pocket and a song in your heart
Keep the lamp of your learnin' burnin' bright
Keep your eye on your horizon and a smile on your face
As you travel down the highway of your life
Don't listen to those voices that say it can't be done
They build walls where there was never one before
No, there's nothing that can stop you, nothing that can drag you down
If you keep lookin' for that ever-open door
So if you follow your dream to the end of the road
Taking care not to let it fade away (not fade away)
If you follow your dream and you follow it well
It will lead you to the promise of a bright, shiny day.
Great way to put it.
Yep, the CRC Handbook.
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