Accepting That Not Everything Is Meant For Us To Understand

 Accepting That Not Everything Is Meant For Us To Understand

Sometimes in our own personal lives as well as in the world in general, unfortunate and unexpected things happen. When unfortunate circumstances or bad things happen, we often tend to wonder why, resulting in us desperately seeking an answer that we may not always receive. While this can cause frustration, we have to remember that with some things in life we simply just aren’t meant to understand why they happen and that it’s perfectly fine to not understand everything.

By accepting that we can’t have the answers to everything, we can live a less stressful life. Life can often be unpredictable and if God had wanted us to understand everything that happens in this world and in our daily lives, he would allow that. Deuteronomy 29:29 states “The secret things belong to the Lord Our God, but the things revealed belong to us and our children forever.” As we do not understand everything, we must simply accept that God has his reasons for not letting us know why certain situations or events occur in the ways that they do.

Because of how deeply God loves and cares for us, he has our best interests at heart and that includes us not always understanding why certain events and circumstances take place in this world. We must simply trust that God allows us to know and understand his plans that are for our good, that will bless us and not harm us, that will give us hope and a future. We must have faith that the things God does not allow us to understand are him doing what it right by us for our protection. Proverbs 3:5 states “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”

We are not meant to comprehend everything that goes tragically wrong in this world and as much as we may wish we could, we unfortunately cannot solve every problem or burden that exists in this world. To ever think that we should understand the reason for everything that happens in this world can also become absolutely exhausting. Instead of worrying about why something awful happened, let’s instead focus on helping to ease the suffering by extending God’s love, kindness, peace and grace to both ourselves and others in times of sorrow, disappointment, fear and distress.