God Knows. I Don't.

"We must accept our position in Him and stop being larger than we are and making Him smaller than He is."

MAN WAS MADE in the image of God and the likeness of God, but he was not given complete wisdom like God. In the sin in the garden is, yet again, man making their thinking as high as God's, making himself God, and making God think like humans. There were 2 trees. One was Life. The one that they were to avoid was knowledge they didn't need. That they didn’t need it goes to it being revealed to them through sin (Genesis 3:7) and to God telling them not to eat of it (Genesis 3:11). Yet it was God who spoke the consequences, so it was knowledge inherent in Him. The serpent said, "You will be like God." Or "He's not telling you everything." This was the lie Eve accepted and Adam ignored.

But remember, He is God, and we are not. That He includes us in His knowledge is mercy. Or we could say, He shares wisdom with us. These are the same thought. He desires us to live connected to Him, so that He can give us wisdom and understanding and revelation to live well, to live healthy. We must accept our position in Him and stop being larger than we are (replacing God) and making Him smaller than He is (because He is forever God.)

Most of our arguments with Him, or arguments over Him, are us being out of position. We want to know all the fine print, every step in advance, with a complete, detailed explanation of the crisis. Things He simply isn’t going to spout. Then we get upset that we don’t know and form wrong opinions of Him, of people, and of our lives.

The study of the Word is rife with these type errors. At a glance, in the Old Testament, you have an angry God, striking out at people every time He feels like it. When in the New Testament, He is love on steroids. Which is correct? To understand the Old, you have to know Him in the New. To understand Him in the New, you have to understand Him in the Old. He is love throughout, from Genesis to John’s Revelation. He is vengeance. It says this in Romans 12:9. But vengeance as God and not as man. Instead, He’s infallible, and while we’re ranting and raving in emotional upheaval, He’s rested, as He has been since Day 7. He’s invited us to rest (Hebrews 4:4-5). He's given us salvation in order to rest. By accepting Jesus as Lord, we are crucified with Him (Colossians 2:20), but to live that way requires commitment, and part of that commitment is an ability to say, “I don’t know what God knows,” and then to ask Him and obey.

The other side of this coin are human-made gods. Men don’t like the idea of a “know it all” God and so make a know-it-all god. But wood and metal, even expensive metal, fashioned with the hands is not alive, and honestly, how did we get that dumb? What I worship, I want to speak to me. I need answers. I want His stability, His peace, and to know that I don’t actually have to figure things out because neither does He. God knows. I don’t. His answer is perfect. It really should be an easy humility to make Jehovah God, to worship the King, Jesus, and the Spirit who is the life of all things. It shouldn’t be humiliating nor painful. Yet to some it is and denial a moment’s elevating of pride which “feels good”. It feels better to not be in slavery to our uncontrolled impulses, to be as we were created to be. Close to Him. One with our Savior. Free. And that only comes by unity with Him, standing where He’s put us, and not being independent of Him, left to our own devices.

“And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field;” (Genesis 2:20)

“And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?” (Genesis 3:9)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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