Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters.

We devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

We were picking back up with new morning mercy, so I'm just going to take it from here.

It says this, you don't have to understand everything in your life because your

Lord of wisdom and grace understands it all. It is a paradox that many of us don't

handle well. We were created by God to be rational human beings and we carry with us the

desire to know and to understand, but we must not forget that we will never experience

inner peace simply because all our questions have been answered.

biblical faith is not irrational, but it takes us beyond our ability to reason.

As believers, in our identity as God's image barriers and the truthfulness of His word,

we do recognize that it is important to study, to learn, to examine, to evaluate, and to know.

But we are not rationalists. We do not trust our reason more than we trust God. We do not reject what God says is true when it doesn't make sense to us.

That's good.

And we know that God's secret will leave us with mysteries in our lives.

Mystery is that even with the best of our theology we won't be able to solve.

biblical literacy does not dispel all confusion and mystery from your life

because while God reveals his will for you in the Bible, he does not reveal all the things he will do in your life for your good and his glory. God surprises you.

So you ask, where is peace to be found? The question is

answered clearly and powerfully in Isaiah 26 versus 3 and 4. You keep him in

perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts

in you. Trust in the Lord forever for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. This passage tells us where peace is to be found.

It is never found in trying to figure out the secret will of God.

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