65. Monday Meditations: The Mercy of Not Knowing
MIDWEEK RISE UP
Erika Kirk
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What if the silence in your life isn’t a sign of God’s absence . . . but His protection?
In this episode of Monday Meditations, we explore the quiet, often painful space between promise and fulfillment — the place where God doesn’t hand us the blueprint, but instead hands us Himself.
Whether you’re in a season of waiting, walking in the dark, or wondering why God hasn't revealed what's next, this meditation reminds us of a truth we rarely celebrate: it’s God’s mercy that keeps us from knowing too much, too soon.
Before David ever wore the crown, he walked through caves. Before the breakthrough came, there was obscurity, testing, and silence.
This episode will help you exhale in the waiting, find peace in the mystery, and remember that even in the quiet, God is still moving.
We hope that you enjoy this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations. To start the week off right, |
| 0:05.8 | the phrase we're going to be meditating on is the mercy of not knowing. Okay, so here we have it, |
| 0:13.7 | the uncomfortable space between the now, the present, and the not yet. It's one of the worst spaces to sometimes be in. And you know the one |
| 0:23.6 | where you feel the stirring of something more, something meaningful, but you have no idea what it |
| 0:29.7 | looks like. You have no idea when it's coming, and you have no idea sometimes how to prepare for |
| 0:35.2 | it. And that's sometimes the season of silence after God gives you |
| 0:39.8 | the promise. It's that ache that follows the anointing and the stretch between the calling |
| 0:45.9 | that God has on your life. And here's what no one tells you, that sometimes God keeps you in the |
| 0:51.3 | dark on purpose, because he loves you so much and he doesn't want |
| 0:56.8 | you to see what's coming. That's not always a bad thing. And I know it sounds counterintuitive, |
| 1:01.5 | but just hear me out. We think that if we just had all the answers, you know, those books, |
| 1:06.8 | those five-year plan books or, you know, the timeline, the map that we want to have, we'd feel at peace. |
| 1:12.9 | But in all reality, that kind of foresight would just crush us. |
| 1:18.7 | And it's sometimes wild to think about like five years ago the full weight of what you would walk through now. |
| 1:25.1 | Would you really want to know that? |
| 1:26.7 | Do you really want to know the? Do you really want to know |
| 1:27.6 | the loss or the shift or the waiting? And if you did, things might have turned out differently. |
| 1:34.2 | You would have made different choices maybe or you would have moved forward differently. |
| 1:38.9 | And sometimes the greatest gift God gives us is the one we never think to thank him for. |
| 1:43.9 | And that's not showing us what is next in our journey. |
| 1:48.0 | And in the Bible, David, we remember the giant, you know, the slingshot and the victory, but what we forget, or sometimes if we never really fully see, is that the battle with Goliath wasn't the beginning of David's rise. |
| 2:01.9 | It was the doorway to his breaking. And after his biggest public victory came his longest |
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