“You have searched me, Lord, and you
know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from
afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my
ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me
in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too
wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.” (Psalm 139:1-6, NIV)
We struggle on days of uncertainty. We cannot ascertain the days ahead and
whether we encounter relief or the continuance of troubled days. We cannot
understand the justice of what we are experiencing. We cannot handle the
pressure of the anxiety of the unknowing. We do not know what to do with our feelings
because we want answers and fixes being unable to contain the pressure in the
anxiety of the unknowing. Why are we so
consumed and overwhelmed with what cannot be known as finite beings? We all know it is impossible to know, what is
ahead for us in the minutes, hours or days and yet we put so much energy and
thought into what we cannot know. Some
bounce through their days, looking at things positively while others labor
through their days, dampened by the melancholy thought patterns they have
fallen into in their lives. The thoughts
can be inaccurate either way; to see things as always positive can be to deny
the reality of certain negative events and to see things as always negative can
be to deny the reality of certain positive events. So how do we deal with days of uncertainty?
David the Psalmist knew many days of
uncertainty during his lifetime and he proclaims the answer to all uncertainty,
rests with the God that knows all things.
The answer to uncertainty in our hearts and minds rests on trusting in
the certainty of the all-knowing God with our thoughts, our days and everything
about us. He knows all of our past, present
and future. He sees our pathways, our hurts,
our needs, our concerns and our cares.
He forgives our sin, redeems our failures and mistakes as He holds us, comforts
us and watches over us as we face all uncertainty. On any day when uncertainty would threaten to
take away our steadiness or when it would flood our thinking with anxiety, we
need to look to our Father in heaven and trust securely in His knowledge. His knowledge has carried us before and it will carry us again. Although His knowledge is too wonderful
for our minds to comprehend, we can completely trust in it, with all of our
heart and mind and strength. His knowledge is always certain and complete on any day
of uncertainty. We need to abandon all our uncertainty to our God, for in Him
alone rests all certainty and knowledge.
Suggested Reading … Psalm 139
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