God's Word Is Not Difficult
God's word is not difficult. He wrote it for simple folk. It is men who make it difficult by pushing it, pulling it, stretching it, and squeezing it to make it look like something it never was meant to be.
If He didn't say it in so many words, God told us to read His Word like a child. That's basically who he wrote it for — simple, uneducated folks; the 'man on the street'. Read it like a child and there will be parts that we just don't understand. But consider...
"Grandpa, why is the sky blue?"
"Well, because God thought we would enjoy looking at a blue sky."
"Oh. It is a pretty color, isn't it?"
The child is satisfied, as we should be. Gramps is not about to try to explain to the child all the physical and mechanical attributes of light that make the sky appear blue to our eye. In time, if it is important to the child's life, the child will learn all about it. Probably not.
In a similar manner, as we continue to read and read again, with a child-like reading, we slowly begin to understand one little piece, then another, and eventually to connect some of the pieces to get a glimpse of the whole. Like the child first learns what numbers are, then learns that they can be added and subtracted, and eventually, perhaps, how to perform advanced calculus manipulations, each step building on the previous as the child develops understanding, so our Father teaches us a little at a time, revealing only so much as He knows we are capable of grasping at the moment, leading continually to a deeper understanding of what He alone knows that we need to accomplish His perfect will.
Just as the child may live a very successful life without ever learning the principles involved in the apparent color of light in space, there are things God may never get around to revealing to us — we simply don't need it to do what He needs us to do. When we meet Him face-to-face, I suspect we will 'know it all'. Maybe not. But in the meantime, don't try to learn more than He is teaching you. You'll only thoroughly confuse yourself!
