A few years ago, a friend was playing in his front yard with his four year old son.

The ball they were playing with rolled out onto the street.

The boy naturally went to get the ball.

My friend stopped him and gave him the words all parents have spoken many times…. 

“Don’t go out in the street”.

All the child saw was his ball.

It’s what he wanted.

My friend, standing there watching his son look out toward the ball, knew of other, greater concerns.

The boy looked up at his father…
looked out towards his ball…
and
without the voice telling him and then the firm hand on the small shoulder… 

the boy would have gone out into  “danger”.

My friend knew the boy only saw his ball…..
and did not understand the stern warning or firm hand holding him.

If you have the ability to reason…
you know where this thread is leading.

But the young boy did not possess that same reasoning ability.

He was four years old.

Likewise….
we do not possess the understanding to completely trust and be comfortable in the events orchestrated by The Father Who stands next to us as we look out at what we feel we must have.

Boys grow to be men.

We will not grow to be Him.

Christ told the men He chose and led…that there were things He could not tell them then.

We, also, will never possess enough reason or wisdom to grasp all of why …The One Who guides us …. does what He does.

It’s like the boy standing and looking out toward his ball.

We want what we want
when we want it….
and we cannot fathom why we cannot have it.

It’s beyond us.

Its beyond a four year old to be able to grasp an adults reasoning.

Take that to an infinite multiple
and you have our position with God.

We do try….
and with age
and gifted discernment from scriptural studies,
and maybe some spiritual impartation…
we can grow into a surface understanding or maybe a submitted mindset in relation to the things we see Him do.

Understand this….
there are unseen things He does
of which we will not know
nor may ever understand ….

even when we see Him as He is.

As the young boy looking out at the ball in the street…
seeing what he wanted…
looking up at his father saying,
“It’s just right there”…

don’t do it.

We cannot understand the reasoning.

Never will.

Not enough capacity.

July 2017