{"id":1594,"date":"2021-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2021-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:00:00","slug":"when-you-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/when-you-dont-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Don\u2019t Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you don\u2019t understand what\u2019s happening in your life, start with what you know for sure; namely, that God is good all the time, and His <i>\u2018love for those who respect Him continues forever.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a0103:17<sup>\u00a0NCV<\/sup>) He\u2019s not fickle. He doesn\u2019t bless you one day and curse you the next: His <i>\u2018mercies never come to an end, they are new every morning.\u2019<\/i> (Lamentations\u00a03:22\u201323<sup>\u00a0ESV<\/sup>)  But there are things God chooses to reveal to us, and <i>\u2018secret things\u2019<\/i> He doesn\u2019t\u2014for our own good. <\/p>\n<p>Writer Beth Jones says: \u2018If God keeps a secret from us, it\u2019s for our benefit and the benefit of others\u2026 For example, He doesn\u2019t go around blaming, tattling or disclosing our sins, weaknesses, unbelief, carnality, selfishness or pride to others. When things happen, God knows why\u2026 <i>Secret things belong to the Lord.<\/i> And when He reveals something to us, it\u2019s because He wants us to walk in that truth by faith. For example, He reveals His character and His will in His Word\u2026 so we can live by faith knowing that He\u2019s good, fair, kind, generous, merciful, faithful, gracious, patient, and He\u2019s in the saving, healing, redeeming, restoring, sanctifying, and blessing business. <i>Things revealed belong to us.<\/i> When we don\u2019t know why\u2026 here\u2019s what we know for sure. God\u2019s Word is truer than our circumstances or experiences\u2026 and just because He knows everything about us doesn\u2019t mean He tells us about everything. We also know that when things look bad, God is still good. He\u2019s a giver, not a taker\u2026 a blesser, not a curser\u2026 and no matter what happens or doesn\u2019t happen, at the end of the day\u2014we still win!\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you don\u2019t understand what\u2019s happening in your life, start with what you know for sure; namely, that God is good all the time, and His \u2018love for those who respect Him continues forever.\u2019 (Psalm\u00a0103:17\u00a0NCV) He\u2019s not fickle. He doesn\u2019t bless you one day and curse you the next: His \u2018mercies never come to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}