Daily Butter 9/15: Knowing

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (9/15/11):

At that time Jesus said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure. (Matthew 11:25-26 HCSB)

I am so thankful for the reminder that Jennifer Benson Schuldt wrote in today’s ODB as my weariness is building and I need that reminder that He offers rest. The verses above along with a song (below) that’s been playing on the radio have been part of that relief. As much as I want to study and grow in my knowledge of Him, God doesn’t call us to understand Him, but to know Him. It’s not the fervent seeking of scholars that God wants but rather His children crawling up on His lap just to spend time with Him. I want to know and love my God with that child-like faith.

I remember when I completed my “Psychology of Women” class, I was happy to have survived the hit to my GPA and told others I was just praying for one woman that I could spend the rest of my life trying to understand. I’ve since given up – the Lord has blessed me with a wonderful wife, Sharon, and though I will continue to love her, respect her, cherish her and hold her, I’ve given over to acceptance over understanding. God’s wisdom in giving us the marriage relationships as a picture of His relationship to His church has been a great help to me. I certainly will never fully understand either God or my wife, but I will love them with everything I have.

- Andy

Give me rules - I will break them

Give me lines - I will cross them

I need more than a truth to believe

I need a truth that lives, moves, and breathes

To sweep me off my feet

It ought to be

More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance
Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It's like I'm falling, oh
It's like I'm falling in love

 - “More Like Falling in Love”  by Jason Gray and Jason Ingram