SCRIPTURE
"If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and everything in it is mine." (Psalm 50:12)
OBSERVATION
The audacity of God. Why won't he tell us? He should. However, we are on a need to know basis (ANTKB) with God. If and when we need to know, he will tells us. The problem is we think we always need to know. Humorously, he tells us in Psalm 50, that even if he were hungry he would not tell us. Why? Because he owns everything. He has no needs.
Now, just because he does not have any needs does not mean he has no desire for us. He wants us to bring offerings, pay vows, and call on him in the day of trouble (vv. 14-15). As humans in response to our Creator, we are to live lives of trust and faith. Waiting until we know (all the i's dotted and t's crossed) leads to inaction. Faith is trust in motion.
APPLICATION
What does God mean, he won't tell me? I think he should let me in on whatever he is doing. However, that does not build my faith it just builds my ego. I'm in on something from God, that someone else is not. I need to submit and surrender. The Psalmist writes, to "order my conduct" (v. 23) to see salvation. That is the heart of worship (vows, offerings, calling on him) which defines my ongoing walk with God. Taking the next step even if I don't know where, how, or when. God calls me to walk my faith and not by sight. I know enough of God that I don't need to know everything.
PRAYER
Lord, I can trust you, even I'm not in the know. That's the beauty of who you are. You perfectly keep the tension between full disclosure and the mystery of the unknown.
