Message summary: Although we know that the trials in life will work out for our good according to Romans 8:28, we earnestly want to know how and when. We want to understand! The answers to most of these questions are simply not provided. So why do we expend so much energy or become anxiety-ridden about those things which we can do nothing about and those things that will never come about in the first place. Yet we so often do! Let us keep trusting today even when we don't understand.

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"But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task" (Psalm 73:16). "I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, 'My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?' He replied, 'Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end'" (Daniel 12:8,9).

This week we are considering lines from "Christ Our Wisdom", a song that we enjoy singing since the words bring tremendous assurance in our daily living for Christ. We share a link to the song with each message so you can listen if you so choose and we will daily post the entire four stanzas.

Today we consider a line from the song that says, "When We Fail To Understand".  How many of you have been through or are even now going through a situation you just don't understand? You may even say, "Why me?"

Pastor E.V. Hill concluded when his wife died, "What is the Lord saying? There's only one message: 'Trust me. Even when you don't understand and can't comprehend: trust me!'"

I find great comfort in the phrase from a classic hymn: "They who trust Him wholly, find Him wholly true." Yes, dear friend, He's wholly true and can bring peace during life's most difficult hour when we fully trust Him.

Many of us can identify with the thoughts of Asaph in Psalm 73, "But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task". Have to ever grown weary trying to understand something?

At the conclusion of his book Daniel expresses himself in a way which many of us can identify, particularly when it comes to some of the more difficult prophetic portions of God’s Word. "I heard, but I did not understand". I’ve been there before and will surely be there again. I’ve read a Scripture portion and wondered, "What does this mean and when will it happen?" I also ask myself the same question in regard to life's events when I am personally impacted by a trial.

Although we know that things will work out for our good according to Romans 8:28, we so much want to know how and when. We want to understand! The answers to most of these questions are simply not provided. So why do we expend so much energy or allow ourselves to become anxiety-ridden about those things which we can do nothing about or those things that will never come to pass in the first place. Yet we so often do!

We need to keep moving forward in the direction we feel God is leading and trust Him to provide the answers or peace about those unresolved troubles along the way. The apostle Paul, facing a time of great uncertainty said to the Ephesian elders, "And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me" (Acts 20:22,23).

Such is the life of faith! Let us keep trusting God's plan for our lives even when we don't understand. The book of Daniel ends with this statement. "As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance" (Daniel 12:13).

Let us also receive this word today in our own lives. One day we will shed these feeble bodies that are prone to sickness, weariness, aging, disease, death and the temptation to sin. Praise God, one glorious day we will rise in our glorified, immortal bodies to receive our fully allotted inheritance, not by our works of righteousness, but according to His grace and mercy! What a day, glorious day that will be!

Be encouraged today!  Hebrews 3:13

Stephen & Brooksyne Weber