I can suffocate under these mind vibrating questions. And often I feel like that is the exact what's happening.
I trend toward obsessiveness, wear it quite well. My mind can picks up a thought and then cling.
The latest mania (and this is a recurring one) is with knowing something. Figuring something out. Identifying. Picking apart, studying, making a specimen out of that which is not a species.
What I'm essentially doing is clamoring for God's job. Committing that first ever sin. And because I am not God, I'm becoming frustrated and fatigued.
I'm forgetting to trust. No, rather, I'm telling God, "I don't trust You. I'll figure it out".
Except I can't. And so I feel nutty. And off-kilter and cluttered. My mind won't shut up.
The bottom line is, some things are not for me to know.
Maybe I wouldn't be able to handle the knowledge. Maybe I'd abuse it if I had it. I don't know what I'd do but I have to believe there's a reason that God is allowing me to be in the dark on this one.
Isaiah 55:8 tells us: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD."
ReplyDeleteWhen we try to know what is only His to know and to understand, we commit the sin of pride, thinking ourselves equal to Him, and the sin of unbelief, failing to trust Him to work all things together for our good (Romans 8:28).
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