The Secret Things of God
Scripture Reading — Deuteronomy 29:9-15, 29T
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
As we read and reflect on this passage about God’s covenant and what he has revealed to his people, we understand that we don’t know everything. God has chosen not to reveal everything to us. We do not have access to all things.
We can think of many reasons why God does not tell us everything. He is God, after all, the one who created us. As his creatures, we cannot be God. His thoughts and ways are not ours, and they are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:8-9). God calls us to have faith in him, and our faith can grow deeper when we do not understand God’s ways and thoughts. As believers, we learn to trust his guidance.
The Spirit opens our minds to understand things about God. As believers, we are blessed abundantly because the Spirit of God comes to live within us. “The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God . . . no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us” (1 Corinthians 2:10-12). We can trust the Spirit to teach us what we need to know, and we can trust that the Lord, who knows all things, will keep us in his care and will always keep his promises.
Spirit of God, thank you for helping us understand what has been revealed to us. Help us to be at peace in knowing that we do not know everything but that you know all things. Amen.
About the author — Denise Posie
Denise Posie served as a pastor in an urban church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for thirteen years. She also served the Christian Reformed Church in North America as a congregational consultant and as director of leadership diversity. Since retiring in 2020, she has served part-time at Calvin Theological Seminary as a pastor in redemptive kingdom diversity, and in her spare time she enjoys writing and meeting new people.
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