What do you know?

This might be hard for you to believe, but I don’t know everything. Can you handle that statement? Let me say it again. I don’t know everything. I know you are picking yourself off the floor from disbelief, but it’s true. As a man I’m a fan of being right and knowing things. I like to know how to get somewhere. I like to know how things work. I like to know the plans that are being made. I like to know. As a man I try to know things beforehand to avoid the chance of looking stupid or having someone tell me how to do something, that all has to do with my pride. My pride is something I struggle with everyday. It’s one of those things that I’m in a daily battle with to overcome. However it is something that I can overcome and I can overcome the idea of not always knowing everything. God does know everything, and he knows what he is doing. The good thing is I don’t always know what he is doing, because if I did that would make me God, and that would be bad. I was asked earlier this week why God would allow someone to die in a tragic way, where they leave a family behind and where a person, people so strongly depended on. My answer was, “I don’t know,” and I like to know. However I don’t know. I don’t know why these things happen. God is a God we can’t fully understand, and that’s ok. I wish I had the answer to the why questions, but all I can say is that I have the faith and belief that I serve a loving, caring God who will never leave me, no matter how hopeless things seem to be. Things happen in our lives that don’t always make sense and don’t always make us happy, however that doesn’t give us a reason to quit on God. We can doubt God, we can question him. I’m sure God doesn’t mind that at all, but we can’t leave him because things are confusing and uncomfortable. I like to know, but I don’t. God knows and that’s good enough for me. As long as I follow and trust that he knows what he is doing I feel like I’ll live my life to the fullest.