Why Questions and Confusion About God Can Lead to Deeper Faith

When I took the GRE exam to get into seminary, my best scores were on the analytical questions. I'm always analyzing things. 

It's a blessing when my research helps me find solid biblical answers to troubling questions. It's a problem when I try to understand things beyond my grasp.

God gives us all the knowledge we need to live for Him:

“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”  2 Peter 1:3

But our earthly lives still contain some mystery:

“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” 1 Corinthians 13:12

After all, we're finite beings and our God is infinite: 

“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

When we trust God with things we can't fully understand, deeper faith begins because “faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1).

If mystery causes us to doubt the character of God, then we need more faith, not more answers.

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