We Know In Part

Standing on a beach, looking out over the ocean can be an awesome experience, especially the first time for a Dakota farm boy. Now I’ve been to our Florida beaches many times, but in a real sense, I’ve never seen the ocean. Only a very small part of it that’s visible from my point on the beach. So it is with God’s Word. I’ve listened to it preached, I’ve studied it, but I only see a part. I Cor. 13:9 says, “We know in part.” If I go diving in it, I know more, but still just a part. If I view it from the space station, I can see the entire outline, but still just a part, …not its depth, weight, force, and the life within it.So when we say we preach the fullness of God’s Word, in all humble honesty, it’s the fullness of the part that we know. And we don’t deny, dismiss, or disregard any of the part that we know. And if we say that we preach God’s Word from cover to cover, it’s like watching from the deck of an ocean liner from New York to London. We’ve seen both shores, and “everything” in between, but we still only “know in part”.

I can feel what God’s Word says, “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!” [Romans 11:33 KJV] Still, I have an insatiable desire to better know His Word, His wisdom, His ways… and above all, to know Him as intimately as any child of His possibly can.