Theology for Everybody: RomansSample

(Continued from Day 244)

Why doesn’t God tell us everything He knows? Because there is a difference between secrecy and privacy.

This is important to God, and it is important for God’s people. Secrecy is what we tend to think of when someone has something we deserve to know and is keeping it from us. Privacy is when something is none of our business. God has things He does not tell us because they are none of our business. They have nothing to do with us. I believe this is what is happening in Romans 11:25–27. God has everything taken care of, and there is nothing else we need to know. We just need to trust that God does know.

As Christians, we all need to have a mystery box and give each other permission to process, learn, and study. There shouldn’t be pressure to know everything or pretend we know everything, which is what religious people tend to do. I became a Christian at 19, and the first thing I had a heart for was all the people who didn’t know Jesus. I got all the guys in my university dorm together and said, “You can ask me any question about Christ or Christianity, and I will answer it eventually. Right now, I know nothing,” I took the questions that I thought I could possibly figure out, and I studied all week. I returned with a few answers and kept studying to find the rest. Over the course of months, many of these guys became Christians. They started going to church with me, got baptized, and joined our men’s ministry.

There were things I put in the mystery box back then that have stayed in the box. There are other questions I found answers for after preaching through half the books of the Bible verse-by-verse and getting a master’s degree in divinity. To be honest, there are questions that I once took out, but now I’ve put them back in. I know God knows, and I know that I know God, so I no longer worry about the answers.

Today’s Reflection

What are some questions that you are trusting God to have the answers to?