By David Willets

1. God knows everything.

2. We don’t know everything!

3. God always has our best interest in mind and is working things out for our good.

4. It is my best option to trust God.

Yesterday, we looked at the first principle.

1. God knows everything.

Now, we look at the second principle…

2. We don’t know everything!

We all know a lot about somethings, but not a lot about many things. Some in our church know virtually everything about building a house, or painting, or electrical wiring, or engineering, or computers, or proper chemicals for cleaning, or how to style hair, or how to run machinery, or how to cook a delicious meal, or the Bible. (Sorry if I left someone out.)

But, none of these know much about what the others know much about.

Now, you know and I know that we don’t know everything. But, we like to think we do, especially about our future. As I’m writing this, I’m struggling with what most likely is the onset of the COVID virus. I think I’ll be fine, but I don’t know for sure.

Paul sheds light on our plight when he wrote… “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” (1 Corinthians 13:12)

We would go a long way in living out these four principles if we just admit we don’t know. I’m so thankful that Thomas could admit he didn’t know. If he had not admitted he didn’t know, we might not have one of the most important things Jesus ever said.

John 14:5–6 (ESV)

5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Let me make this simple. Jesus said, you don’t have to know the way. You need to know the one who knows the way. And that lead us to the next principle.