Rolling Everything onto GOD

 "Rolling Everything" onto God by Dr. Jim Denison

There is mystery at the heart of every major Christian doctrine: Is God three or one? Was Jesus fully man or fully God? Is the Bible divinely inspired or humanly written? Does God know the future or do we have free will? The answer to each question is yes.

Before you dismiss the Christian faith because of these intellectual tensions, consider the logical alternative: if your finite, fallen mind could fully understand God, either He would not be God or you would be. If His "ways" are not "higher than your ways" and His "thoughts than your thoughts," He is not the omniscient, omnipotent God of the universe (Isaiah 55:9).

Now this God is calling us into a more holistic, unconditional relationship with Him than we have known (Romans 12:1–2). He wants us to view what we don’t understand about Him through the lens of what we do know about him (cf. Psalm 34:8).

He invites us, "Commit your way to the Lᴏʀᴅ; trust in Him, and He will act" (Psalm 37:5). "Commit" renders a Hebrew word literally translated as "roll everything onto." When we trust all we know and all we don’t know completely to our Father, such faith positions us to receive all He intends to give to us and to experience Him in ways that transcend our doubts and even our certainties.

"Perplexed, but not driven to despair"

Paul could testify, "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed" (2 Corinthians 4:8–9). This is because he chose to "look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen" (v. 18a). 

Here’s why he made this decision: "The things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal" (v. 18b).

Ralph Waldo Emerson observed, "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

What questions do you need to trust to your loving Father today?