Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. (John 21:25 ESV)
Know What God Says
I collect Christmas Nutcrackers. One year a neighbor offered me any of his nutcrackers. They had been collected by his mother for decades, and now they were filling boxes that filled his garage. So I went to his garage and looked.
I experienced sensory overload.
So… many… nutcrackers!
I certainly did not need them all, but it was very difficult analyzing which nutcrackers to accept. Too many nutcrackers of too many varieties, sizes, styles, colors, ages, and sets.
Our senses are overloaded with information all the time. How do we know which piece of information to accept? How do we know what is true, and what is fake? I feel sorry, sometimes, for people without a steady place to stand when taking in information.
The last words of the fourth gospel tell us something cool. Out of all the events of Jesus’ life on earth, the Holy Spirit has already figured out for us which parts we need to know. In this case, all of the events were true, but we do not need every bit of every event of Jesus’ life ensconced in our brains.
We just need what God gives us in His Bible.
Unlike the rest of the world, who are not sure what to think, believe, conclude, understand, or grasp… we can know what we know.
We’re peculiar, we know what God says.