Uncertainty

"Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We imagine that we have to reach some end, but that is not the nature of spiritual life. The nature of spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty....Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life; gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth....We are not uncertain of God, but of what He is going to do next. If we are only certain in our beliefs, we get dignified and severe and have the ban of finality about our views; but when we are rightly related to God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy"-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for his Highest



Word!!! This was amazing! For me at least. I have never thought that uncertainty would be a good thing. It is hard for me because I am extremely mathematical, calculating, and logical in all that I do; and I have always thought that faith in God was being certain of Him and all the qualities that you learn about Him from sunday school. While I have known the uncertainty of God, it has been from my perspective thinking that God was uncertain because He wouldn't answer me or because I would misread something and think He had changed his mind on me.

It does make lagical sense though that our all knowing God, that can do anything, although we never know what or when, that it would be a sign of spiritual life. To know that you don't know it all and that the only way that you can come close is to admit defeat and just have faith in Jesus!

I am learning alot and I'm trying to be open to new things and just soak up all that I can. I usually know that I have learned something by feeling certain about it, by knowing all that there isto know about it. I may not know alot and but I know what I know and I'm certian of it even when I'm uncertain!