"You Don't Have to Understand Everything" - Nobody Told Me series

I thought becoming a Christian meant the Bible would start making sense. All of it.

Like faith was a key that unlocked some kind of divine comprehension.

Instead, I'll sit in church while my pastor masterfully breaks down an obscure chapter in Leviticus or Numbers, and I'm just sitting there thinking... I don't possess that kind of depth. Not even close.

I can read the Gospels and connect with the storytelling perfectly. But the second I hit those deep Old Testament history gaps and obscure references, I get completely lost.

And instead of asking questions, I'd go quiet.

Because nobody told me it was okay to be lost in those sections. Nobody told me that was actually expected.

Deuteronomy 29:29 says — the secret things belong to the Lord our God.

Not — here are all the answers. Not — figure it out.

The secret things belong to Him.

Isaiah puts it this way — My thoughts are not your thoughts. My ways are not your ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth — so are my ways higher than yours.

That's not a rebuke to make you feel stupid. That's a permission slip.

You are a finite mind trying to comprehend an infinite God. Of course there are things you won't fully understand right now. That was never a failure of faith. That's just the nature of the relationship.

The pressure to have it all figured out — that's not from God.

Your job isn't to master the history of ancient Israel overnight. Your job is just to stay in the Word, showing up every day, and trusting that He's going to use that time to deliver the exact message meant for you.

You don't have to understand everything. You just have to trust the One who does, and fall a little more in love with Him every day.

The rest? He's got it.