You Wouldn’t Understand Anyway!...
Judges 13:17-18 (New Living Translation)
17 Then Manoah asked the angel of the Lord, “What is your name? For when all this comes true, we want to honor you.” 18 “Why do you ask my name?” the angel of the Lord replied. “It is too wonderful for you to understand.”
2 Corinthians 6:14 (Amplified Bible)
14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?
Have you ever been in a position to try to explain yourself, your beliefs, your way of thinking or your process of believing to someone who has no reference point for what you are saying? Have you ever tried to prove who you really are to someone who has formulated an opinion about you from others, their own mind or from their past experiences? These can be some of the most frustrating and uncomfortable times that we encounter. We can find ourselves torn, trying to figure out whether to let the person keep their view point no matter how off kilter it may be or wrestling with them to make them see the truth. Is it our job, or not to make ourselves understood by those who clearly do not believe as we do, our walk in the ways of God as we do? We are to live a life pleasing to God before them, but beyond that, probably not, if we did we would find ourselves in a state of perpetual frustration and distress.
On Sunday as we were preparing to receive the Word Of God, and our Bishop was reading a passage of scripture in Judges, Judges 13:17 and 18 jumped out at me, and I could see the relevance immediately…So many times in my life I have paired myself with people that had no clue who God created me to be, never the less, who I was supposed to be in their lives. I have lived through days and nights of frustration and anguish trying to figure out a way to get them to understand me, to understand what I was sent in their lives for or to accept the God given gift I am, or the wonder of who I was, just as an individual. We are ALL Wonderfully and Fearfully made, but we are not all meant to be understood or aligned with everyone. I have come to realize that those who God ordains for our lives will understand, and even when they do not understand they will pray and try to gain a respect for us. It is true that even when it is a God ordained relationship the enemy will try his hardest to be disruptive and cause confusion, but there will be an element, and a draw by the Holy Spirit that will encourage us to seek God’s help, to see what is truth and what is real and what our un-renewed mind maybe trying to get us to accept as truth.
Sometimes who we are is too much for people to understand because we have chosen God’s purpose, will and obedience for our lives, and they have not or have chosen their own brand of belief. Individuals that encounter us may say they get us, when in all truth they do not. They may even try to force their definition, vision and explanation, for who we are on us, and others, in order for them not to have to accept the fact that they do not know God that well or at all and that they are missing who we are entirely. We have to remember to try to force someone that is all the way in the dark, partially in the dark or not ordained for our lives to see the truth of who God says we are, and who He has made us is a waste of time. It is often beyond the comprehension of man, who God has fashioned us to be and what he has predestined and ordained our lives to be.
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