post 16

I want to know why?

Why did "this" happen this way?

If I knew WHY then maybe I could bear it.

If I saw what You, God, saw, maybe I could handle this better.

I've thought that ^ before.

My mom had a miscarriage.

"Why God?"

Through the post-miscarriage doctors appointments mom found out she had cancer.

The miscarriage was used to help save her life!

I felt like I knew "why."

But I've learned this answer to Can I just know why? is rare.

We usually don't know why.

Or sometimes we want to know how.

How can this be good?

How could you possibly turn this into something good?

How?

If I just knew "how" I could endure this.

Even rarer is it that we get to know "how" God is going to work.

Turns out that we don't get to know very much.
Just kidding.

"And you shall know the Lord." Hosea 2:20

It isn't promised that we will know why.

It isn't promised that we will know how.

But it is promised that we shall know the Lord.

That is what we know.

The privilege, the honor, the joy, the safety, the blessing of knowing the Lord,

even when - no! - especially when you know nothing else.

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Now my heart's desire is to know You more,
To be found in You and known as Yours, 
To possess by faith what I could not earn,
All-surpassing gift of righteousness.

Knowing You, Jesus, knowing You.
T

here is no greater thing.

graham kendrick