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"For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."

1 Corinthians 2:16 KJV

"I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you." John 15:15 NIV

"The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him, and he will shew them his covenant." Psalm 25:14 KJV

"For the perverse person is an abomination to the LORD, but His secret counsel is with the upright." Proverbs 3:32 NKJV

"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law." Deuteronomy 29:29 NIV

I've been going on various message boards online and reading views of skeptics when it comes to religion and God and all the spiritual things that can keep one up all night thinking about. There are a lot of questions of God that people cannot explain. It has caused me to just sit there and think until my brain hurts.

Yesterday I rested in my mind and decided to put all those questions behind me and took the time and spent it reading the Word. It is a beautiful thing when you read the Bible, but you know what is more fulfilling? When you dig into those Words and search for understanding rather than just encouragement for the day. The deeper I dig, the harder I look, the more of God I find. The Bible is an incredible book. Critics can say a lot against it, but it is put together so incredibly that whether you believe it or not, you just have to sit back and me amazed at how well it is put together and thought out.

I sat there with The Book in front of me not knowing where I wanted to read. I asked the Holy Spirit to enlighten the words of the page because in all honesty, we cannot understand anything of God without knowing His Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:11-12) I am just amazed at the syntax of this book, the whole story behind it.

I'm doing a Beth Moore study on the book of Esther and she was talking about how the Bible is filled with a "reversal of destiny." I never realized that but it is true. From the book of Genesis destiny was reversed, to the book of Revelation which reveals the reversal of destiny through the Lamb of God. The more I read the Bible I understand the reasons for the stories within it. Everything is about God revealing Himself to man.

The other day I was digging into Ezra, the more time I spent reading and really trying to understand the concept of the passage I read the more emotion I saw in it. The pages came to life. Have you ever done that with a book before? When you just fall right into the pages of it, and you become part of the story? When you do that with the Bible the story captivates your soul. When the story is historical like the book of Ezra (it is recording the exiles and the Medo-Persian kings of that time) you realize the reality of these people and the reality of God. It is so mysterious how God reveals His character through the Bible and through people.

I've questioned all that a skeptic questions of God, it really does keep you from trusting the Bible because there are so many questions. However, I'm beginning to realize why C.S. Lewis refers to some of these as nonsense questions because they are never-knowing questions. These never-knowing questions are just ways for people to keep themselves from having to fall on their knees before God and acknowledge that we are not God and we have no control. That there is only one God, the true and holy One, the Creator of the universe. No one wants to completely devote their life to the someone beyond themselves. Why? because it is the fear of the unknown, the foolish result of not knowing. How foolish to believe in the God of the Bible.

One question I've been pondering is, I don't know how evil came into existence or why God allowed it to flourish in the way that it did. I really don't understand the concept of a Holy God and evil, and how the Holy God puts limitations on evil but hasn't destroyed it completely and why He'd allow it to corrupt His created human beings. I don't understand why that is, but what I do see is that there is more to God than just this infinite being that allows things to happen, that allows evil to exist and spoil other areas of his creation. The story of this god, from what I have found, is that instead of just letting these corrupted created creatures go destroy themselves, this god has shown compassion on them. The story in Genesis, shows how after God curses Adam and Eve and kicks them out of the Garden because they sinned, this same God then provides clothing for them. He clothes them, to cover their exposure. What uncaring God would do such a thing? We can ask the question, if God was so caring why does He allow evil to exist? but have you ever asked the question, if God is so uncaring why does He still speak to His created beings? If God is so uncaring who is this Jesus of Nazareth character? If God is so uncaring, why are there so many happy to do people proclaiming Him? Why are many of these happy people not material? Why are they suffering yet joyful in it? Why do they have hope? If our Creator is so uncaring, why as created beings do we have this sense of "hopefulness" within us? If our Creator was so uncaring, wouldn't we have that innate sense that there is no hope? I don't know, I'm probably just rambling a bunch of nonsense but that has been on my mind.