\u201cThe Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?\u201d Proverbs 20:24 NLT
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This is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It\u2019s my, \u201clet yourself off the hook\u201d verse. It\u2019s right here in black and white. God is the only one that knows all, I never was meant too and I never will, so why waste time trying?
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We all have people in our life who think they know everything. People who think they have an answer for whatever situation you happen to be dealing with at the time. Those people test my patience more than any others. Sometimes I wonder if they know how ridiculous they sound? Really, you have an answer for everything? Then why do young children get cancer? Why do loved ones die unexpectedly? Why does life hurt so much? Why is it so hard? I\u2019d love the answers to those questions from the ones who think they know it all.
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Truth is, they don\u2019t have the answers to those questions anymore than I do. But I know the one who does. Even though He doesn\u2019t give me the answers to some of the tough questions in life, I trust Him. I trust that even though it makes no sense from my earthly view, it makes complete sense from His heavenly view. And there is more about life on earth that doesn\u2019t make sense to me than does.
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I\u2019ve mentioned Corrie Ten Boom, a hero of the faith to me. \u00a0Survivor of the holocaust, having lost her sister and dad in a Concentration camp. \u00a0She was known for working on embroidery as she spoke to audiences. She would hold up the back of the piece she was working on, there were threads of all different colors blurred together and hanging from it. \u00a0You couldn\u2019t tell what the picture on the other side was. She would ask her audiences if God granted what we asked for in prayer as she held it up for them to see. \u201cNot always.\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes He says no. That is because God knows what we do not know.\u201d \u00a0Then she would turn the piece over to show the beautiful picture on the other side, the right side. \u00a0The side with a view from heaven.
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Our world may make no sense to us at all, but one day when we enter the pearly gates, we\u2019ll understand. We\u2019ll be able to see it from a different perspective. The tangle of threads will come together to form a beautiful picture. We\u2019ll finally be able to say, \u201cThat\u2019s what You were doing God. I had no idea.\u201d Because from this side of heaven, we don\u2019t know. But one day, we will. We\u2019ll be grateful we put our trust in the One who does know. We\u2019ll be grateful He was the One directing our steps, even if we didn\u2019t understand where they were taking us. One day, we\u2019ll know.
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