God's Secrets

     A preacher read a short passage of Scripture, took off his glasses, slammed his Bible shut, and said, "This morning I intend to explain the unexplainable, find out the undefinable, ponder over the imponderable, and unscrew the inscrutable."

     That is too much to claim, for we read in old testament, "The secret things belong to Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever." (-Deuteronomy 29:29) One of them is our future. Moses was reminding a new generation of Israelites of God's covenant to establish them as His people in the Promise Land. Moses also warned that they would be uprooted if they disobeyed. They were not to speculate about how their future would unfold; rather they were to concentrate on living in obedience to God's revealed Law.

     There is a greater purpose, however, for the "secret things" that belong to God. He is infinite and we are not. Therefore, He doesn't give us answers to all the question " whys" of His ways. He has revealed, though, how we today can know Him personally by trusting Jesus as a Savior, and how we can live wisely by handling our future to Him as Lord.

     Although we will still have many questions, we can be sure that God's secrets are always designed for our own good.

     "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." -Romans 8:28