What Do I Know?

What Do I Know?

I don’t understand the Algebraic Formula for graphic an equation for a circle.  But I know how to ‘do’ it.  I know which numbers to plug into which spots to solve or create an equation that graphs into a circular shape.  It’s simply true.  Not because I have used any superior brain power to make it true.  But simply because it is true.

Electricity works the same way.  So does microscopic surgical cell repair.  So does quantum physics.  So do a lot of things.  It is not my reasoning that makes something true.  Facts are true NOT simply because I have figured them out.

And things about God work that way, too.

He isn’t POWERFUL because I have determined through Scripture, logical deduction, or even observation that He is powerful. 

He isn’t Holy because I have determined through Scripture, logical deduction, or even observation that He is Holy.

He isn’t Gracious because I have determined through Scripture, logical deduction, or even observiation that He is full of Grace, eager to be Gracious, the epitome of Grace.

While I can sometimes use my reasoning mind to discover these things (and more) about God, He is those things whether I discover them or not.  Or even if I agree with them or not.

The Facts of God simply are.  I can attach to them with reason, observation, or faith.  But those things don’t MAKE God-facts true.

My reason, just like my feelings, are good and useful things to discover God and His ways.  But His ways are beyond my control.  His ways are true.

So very true.

And when my brain is fuddled or confused… that is comfort.  When my reasoning is faulty, it doesn’t change Who He is… and that is comfort.   When I don’t understand or understand wrongly, He still is Who He is.

That’s a fact.
And I can rest on that.