I'll Understand it Better By and By

        It seems that there are many men who like to look inside of things and see how they work. I am much the same way. When something breaks, I often take it completely apart. Maybe I don't have hopes of fixing it, but maybe I will understand how it works. Of course there are many things that I don't understand. I don't understand tax instructions and I don't understand the wordy clauses in my insurance policies. I don't understand how a 747 can fly nor can I understand how the bumble bee flies. I don't understand how a television works when pictures are sent through the air and I don't understand how a human heart keeps beating. I don't understand everything about heaven and hell and I don't understand everything about death and living. I am, however, a part of all of them whether I understand it or not. God will not excuse me from death just because I don't understand all that there is to understand. One of the greatest things I don't understand is how my sin could be imputed to Jesus Christ and His righteousness could be imputed to me when I was born again. I guess I am in good company because a great man named Nicodemus had the same questions. Now, Nicodemus should have known the answer but he didn't so Jesus told him plainly what to do. John 3:3 says, "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

        There are going to be a lot of things in this life that we will know a lot about, but we won't understand everything that there is to know about hardly any of them. I understand that if I have a good battery and fuel in my car, it should start when I turn the key. I understand that my furnace will heat my house be burning an invisible gas that comes to me in a pipe. I understand that if I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ that He came to die for my sins, in my place, on the cross of Calvary, then I will have eternal life. Oh, I don't understand it all but I do understand what God has said in His Word in Acts 16:31. "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." I don't need to understand all of the workings that go on but I do need to accept the truth that God has given me. You may find that there are a lot of things that you do understand and probably just as many things that you don't understand in this life. Remember however, that your understanding doesn't change the fact that they are perfectly right. The problem sometimes comes when people try to reason things according to their own thinking. So, praise God today for His workings in your life in spite of whether you understand it or not.