Based on Mark 9:14-37 (New King James Version)
“And when He came to the disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and scribes disputing with them. Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people were greatly amazed, and running to Him, greeted Him. And He asked the scribes, ‘What are you discussing with them?’ Then one of the crowd answered and said, ‘Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not.’ He answered him and said, ‘O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me.’ Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth. So He asked his father, ‘How long has this been happening to him?’ And he said, ‘From childhood. And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.’ Jesus said to him, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.’ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, ‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!’ When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, ‘Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!’ Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, ‘He is dead.’ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, ‘Why could we not cast it out?’ So He said to them, ‘This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.’ Then they departed from there and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know it. For He taught His disciples and said to them, ‘The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day.’ But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him. Then He came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house He asked them, ‘What was it you disputed among yourselves on the road?’ But they kept silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, ‘If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.’ Then He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, ‘Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.’”
Through every instance in the Word, we should be able to see something very important, and that is that the Lord knows much more than all of us. In this short passage, we see three instances that demonstrate that. In the first instance, the Lord asked about the dispute that had happened, but He knew what the issue was (because remember, that He even knows our thoughts), and He frees the young man from the unclean spirit. In the second instance, He spoke to the disciples about His death and resurrection, about something they didn’t know, nor far less, could not understand why it was going to happen, and the reason for this to happen. He knew about things that were completely out of the reach of the disciples. And in the third instance, while the twelve were disputing among themselves on who would be first, He taught them something that would go completely against what they thought should have been. At every moment, we can see that He was (and is) many steps (per se) ahead of everyone.
How can we see that God really knows more than us? Well, we already saw that His Word demonstrates it clearly. But also, His works proclaim His greatness, His intelligence. If man would only just accept the reality that God made everything, the issue of being able to understand what is most basic, something a child can even understand, then many things would become easier. Everything that is created speaks of His majesty, of how immeasurable and incalculable His knowledge is. As it is written: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge.” Psalm 19:1-2. And it is also written: “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.” Romans 1:20. Everything speaks of the greatness of God, from the invisible and microscopic, to the greatest and most infinite. If God knew how to make all of those things, things that we could never know, nor far less, do them ourselves, we would then be able to understand that He knows infinitely more than all of us.
Now then, what should man do with this knowledge? Very easy, look for the Lord, with all of their heart, as it is written: “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. ‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. ‘For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:6-11. Everything God says will be. Nothing will change what the Lord has determined. What we should always keep in mind is that the Word can be fulfilled for good in our lives, if we love and obey the Lord, or for evil, as the simple consequence of what happens when the Lord is neither loved nor obeyed. There are people that think that because a person is exposed to God’s Word, that this will change a person, sooner or later. That is what God wants, because that is why He sends it, with the purpose to bring about change in a person. But the issue is that everything in the Lord is through love, and in love, nothing is forced. God provides the circumstances with the hope that a person listens and change, but He will never force anyone. Free will never ends, even when we have given our lives over to the Lord. The basis for our relationship with the Lord is always love. And as such, everything is based on choice, as it is written: “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.” Deuteronomy 30:14-15.
In the end, whoever desires to be wise, for their own good, should look to obey the Lord, for it is written: “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.” Luke 6:46-49. So then, do you understand, for your own good, that the Lord knows much more than you do? Lord bless! John