Last year I kept hearing people exclaim, “I just don’t know!” in regards to relationship conflicts, financial difficulties, and health woes. I kept hearing this phrase over and over again in an assortment of other circumstances. For some reason it seems that I heard this cry of exasperation more than all the other years of my life combined.
There was one person that added a word and said, “I just don’t know anymore” which made me ponder the statement. I imagined the person saying, “I thought I had it together. I thought I had it figured out. I thought I knew, but I just don’t know anymore.” I think that it would be a marvelous thing if we could all confess that we just don’t know anymore.
Even as Christians, we don’t have to know everything. We should be okay if we haven’t figured everything out. If we were given more information or a bit more vision would it make a difference in the way we would deal with the situation? If we were given the results, would it make a difference in the way we approach something? If we knew that we would be rejected and treated the way Jesus was treated, would that information influence the way we would respond to people? Sometimes knowledge may mean that we are able to see the light in the tunnel from the train that’s about to hit us.
We don’t have to know all the details of our lives and we don’t have to know how every situation will turn out. But we are told that Jesus was raised from the dead in glory and honor and we also have the promise of the same victory (Romans 6, I Corinthians 15:51-57). We may not know anymore, but can we trust the One who gives us this promise?
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