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             This is what the Lord says, he who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it—the Lord is his name: “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:2-3)

“Great and unsearchable things? Oh, cool. (People will envy me like they did Joseph or Daniel - but you didn’t hear that part. I didn’t say it.)” Perhaps the hardest part of this is the fact that what God tells us isn’t necessarily, or even likely, to be what we want to hear. My current complaint to God is that He isn’t giving me a copy of His detailed plans for the next six months. My parents were the same way. If they told me, I would fixate on one of the  future things. In college, as soon as I had my schedule for the next semester and the books were available, the current semester didn’t matter much. So, I can’t really blame God - but I pout.

What we (at least I) don’t understand or tend to consider is just how great and unsearchable some of what we claim to know is. God reveals Himself to us. He tells us His names. He tells us He loves us. He tells us how we can please Him. He sent His Son, who died, rose again, and sent the Spirit to live within us. He sent prophetic warnings about the future. He gave us gifts and told us how to use them. No, He didn’t give us an instruction manual, but the purpose of the gifts is to build up the Church and to love one another and Him. When it comes down to it, these are all great and unsearchable. God didn’t have to create us or share any of those things with us. But it’s all “old news.”

Here are some questions we may do well to ask ourselves:

1)  Why should He tell us more if we don't properly value what He has already told us?

2)    Would having the information we want really help us make it through today?

3)    Why do we want to know the great and unsearchable things?

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