The unknown can be known

Posted on Mar 16, 2016 in BLOG, pastors pen |

I remember lying in bed as a youngster, about 7 years old. My brother and sister were out somewhere, and my parents wanted to visit someone down the road about half a block away in the evening. Back in South Africa in those days it was acceptable and safe to leave someone home alone, especially if you had a big dog like our Sausage Dog or Dachshund in the house (just kidding).
Anyway, I was in bed and somewhat nervous despite the above. So I did what any sensible and brave boy on his own in the dark would do, I slowly crept deeper and deeper under the bedcovers to keep safe from any monsters moving around in my imagination or the room: it didn’t matter which at this point. I even fearfully called out for our doggie to come and stand guard, but to no avail. He didn’t hear me or was perhaps afraid of the monsters himself.

Well, in what seemed like an eternity, I heard the rattle of a key in the front door: my parents had arrived back. Just then I heard a thump, thump under my bed! It was the dog, he’d been sleeping under the bed all the time, and hadn’t even heard my quiet cry for help. I was OK and lived to tell you this story about fear of the unknown.

God knows all about our fears, rational or otherwise and wants us to know Him for sure as our protector. Not maybe, hope so, I really need so, but know so.

It seems fashionable among some Christian folk I know to extol the virtues of doubt and unbelief, as if that shows we are human, vulnerable, transparent, real or some such. No God has set things up that we can know Him for certain and stand on solid ground, not tossed to and fro by circumstance, the smoke and mirrors of deception and or fear of the unknown.

He has even promised to show us things to come so that we can prepare and posture ourselves in faith to withstand any onslaught.

John 16:13

But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.

Quite something that. God Himself by the Holy Spirit pre[pares us so that we need not have a fear for the ‘unknown’.

Consider this too:

 1 Corinthians 2:9-10

as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

And then this in Vs 12 of the same chapter:

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

Know the unknown. Take time to listen in His presence as you praise, pray and meditate on the Word. That’s God’s vehicle of communication and exchange. Exchange the unknown for the known.