Beyond Understanding

Beyond Understanding

Much of what matters is discovered when we wrestle with mystery, the areas of life beyond our understanding.

The character of the human spirit is certainly a mystery. Women are mysterious to men, as men are to women. Teenagers are in their own category of mystery to the average parent. Humans are complex, simple, and full of unpredictable emotion.

And then the even deeper mysteries: If God exists, why won’t He prove His existence? If God is loving, how can He allow evil and suffering? What happens after you die?

Understanding is important. There are answers out there for many of your questions. But it is in negotiating mystery that you’re forced to move beyond yourself into the realm of faith and trust.

So the ultimate question perhaps isn’t, “What do you know?”

It is, “Whom do you trust?”

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out. . . . For from him and through him and for him are all things.

—Romans 11:33, 36