Trusting God When You Don’t Understand

Science class really frustrates me sometimes, because I can’t wrap my mind around it.

While I can draw you a diagram to show how mirrors reflect light, answer test questions about mirrors and write a conclusion for my mirrors lab report, I just can’t fully understand how mirrors work.

All the technical stuff, I’m fine with. I still don’t understand how it’s even possible.

Does that mean that I don’t believe in mirrors? Of course not. I know that they work exactly how my science teacher tells me they do, even if I can’t understand how that is.

So why do I treat God any differently?

I know that my identity comes from what Christ says about me. I am his child. Nothing in this world can tell me otherwise.

But so often I don’t understand how that changes anything in my life. Who cares if Christ accepts me? I need the acceptance of others. That is what seems to matter most.

Just like a mirror that seems to work in one way, but actually works according to laws of science that I don’t fully understand, it may seem that I need the acceptance of others, rather than that of Christ, but I don’t. Because this life, too, works according to laws that God, who is good and sovereign, has set in place.

Whether I understand them or not, I need to trust them. It’s a matter of faith.

We destroy every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:5

I don’t need to understand the rest. I can simply trust the word of my good God and fight to believe it, knowing that he will help me.