My point this morning …

As Christians, there are some things we that we do not know! And will never know until certain events come to pass!

For example, in 1 John 3:2 we read … Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be ….”

I do not know a lot about the future body I will inhabit. That “glorified body” we are promised after death! Again, I am writing to Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Or about my future home in Glory. “It doth not yet appear what we shall be!”

Wow!

Another example, I do not know when my Lord is coming again! Matthew 24:36 teaches me: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” With this Fact, with these Words of Jesus, I must rest content.

I do not know much about death either. I have never experienced it. But will, unless the Rapture occurs first. I am aware however “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” Hebrews 9:27

And that … “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.” Psalm 23:4

Other than that, death is an “unknown.” I do know that the “sting” of death is gone as well. Because of Jesus’ Death and Burial and Resurrection! (1 Corinthians 15:55)

All right, you may be saying by now.

Actually, I can’t type all the things which “I do not know” (at least not fully) as a Christian, as a Bible Believer.

And that limited ignorance (limited knowledge) is a fact, surely, for a reason, for some important reason.

That reason being … when I do not know, I can TRUST my Lord! My Lord WHO DOES KNOW!

Again let me say it: I CAN TRUST!

One more verb … I CAN TRUST AND OBEY!

Deuteronomy 29:29 suns the Lesson well … “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

Amen!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

My favorite hymn in all the Songbook is “I know Whom I have believed!” Its verses list many things we do not know … then repeats the glorious fact that WE DO KNOW Jesus Christ the Son of God and our dear Lord!

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