I Don’t Know. He Knows.
Kneeling as I crept to my bed, I stopped and said my goodnight-prayer and I just felt that I needed to open up the famous Jeremiah 29:11 and for the first time, I saw it from a totally different perspective.
"For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" Jeremiah 29:11
It really struck me, as someone who is going through the i-don’t-know season, when I saw that two words "I KNOW" declared by the Lord, I fell flat to my face and for the first time I realized I’ve been looking at the wrong direction which is myself and what I can do and what I should do instead of trusting that He knows even though I don’t. How blind I had been all this while. He got my back and even goes before me. What else could have caused me to worry? Who cares if I don’t know, He knows!
"Forgive me for being so blind, O Lord."
Don’t Think God. Get To Know Him.
This memory struck me while I was on the plane for a business trip to
Singapore a few weeks ago and it came with a message with it.
When I was a kid, I always told myself that whenever I got the chance to fly, I would open the aircraft window and grab as many clouds as I could.
At the age of 7, part of the dream came true, but to my disappointment, I somehow couldn’t open the window, hence my name isn’t written on the Guinness Book Of Records as the first kid who caught a cloud (no wonder we’re still catching a cold).
So anyway, I didn’t know about pressure thing and whatsoever explanation back then. I simply thought that my imagination was the truth. I got all my plans worked out, how I would throw tantrums so that I could get the window seat and etc. But, guess heaven didn’t think I could handle some fame yet….kidding..
Same with my walk with God, there are times, especially "bad-times" when I would think that God must hated me now or He didn’t love me anymore or guess He couldn’t take my behaviour or whatever wrong thoughts about God you can think of, which of course, is totally a LIE.
So, what I learnt is that next time I won’t try to think God, I’ll just get to know who He really is and despite how the circumstances might be, He doesn’t change, be it His love, His mercy, faithfulness and ……….you may continue this whenever you discover new things about Him.
