Not Entitled to Full Disclosure.

In the interest of full disclosure… these words invoke the truth laid bare, nothing hidden, nothing secret, everything exposed. Full disclosure, don’t hold back even the smallest detail.

Tell me something, do we know everything about each other? Do you know every last detail of your spouse, your child, your best friend, your brother, your mother, your sister, your father? A person that is closest to you, do you really know everything there is to know about them? Absolutely…not!

Ask a husband why he loves his wife and he may list a whole slew of her finest attributes, do the same for the wife about her husband and the result will be the same. Yet the finest attributes we possess are not the whole of us. In fact in some cases those finest attributes could be things from dating years, or early marriage, things that have since faded away under the pressure of life. Why do we choose who we choose to love? We aren't unique puzzle pieces fitting only to a single other unique puzzle piece, we have to make the choice to love someone and once we make that choice even then it doesn’t have to be a permanent one, unfortunately. We don’t have to make our bed and lie in it, we discard the bed we made and find a new one because those choices we made to love that person are no longer important enough for us to stay with them. People change, and we don't always like the changes. We change and we no longer like our own changes along with the person we chose.  Today there have cropped up so many different scenarios of love relationships, scenarios to fit anyone's passing fancy. If you don’t like current choices of relationships it doesn't seem to matter, make up your own and no one will fault you because we live in a world of self-gratification, self-indulgence and if we aren't gratified or indulged, then there is a problem somewhere because that's what life seems to be for.  This isn't really a new concept, there have been situations like this since the beginning.  We make choices. We answer to ourselves and higher powers.

Remember how this started out- in the interest of full disclosure? Ultimately we do NOT know ANYONE fully, not  single person, it is impossible!  So, tell me this, if we can't truly know another human being, someone made with the same fleshy form as we are, the same species, the same basic mold, then why do we even imagine on any level whatsoever that we can KNOW God and ALL HIS secrets?

We ask questions such as why God did this, or why God didn’t do that, and we struggle with comprehending the whys and wherefores as if somehow if we knew the whys and wherefores we could accept God, believe God, choose God. If we had full disclosure from God, every explanation to every question we could possibly ask, why then, we'd be able to make a truly informed choice.  We want that from God, yet we don’t and can't get that from each other!

You know those vows - in sickness in health, for better or worse?  Do you comprehend the full weight behind them? What a person is vowing in their wedding ceremony is to NEVER leave their spouse NO MATTER WHAT.  Do we hear that vow though? Do we hear the words, do you promise to never, ever leave your husband or wife no matter what they do, or don't do? Of course we don't hear those words. And even if we did say those words they wouldn't mean a thing in light of some atrocities that come to pass in marriages, right?  Do you suppose the words-  Why didn't you tell me that BEFORE we were married?- ever come up in fights between husbands and wives? Or, I didn't know you were really like that. Or, how could you be this way, you weren't like this before, you've changed.

The point I think I'm trying to make here, is that in husband and wife relationships, and really in any relationship we have with another person, we will NEVER know each other fully.  Not all undisclosed attributes are bad either, sometimes we exceed the expectations of others, and they exceed ours. The things that aren't revealed are wonderful things, not horrid. Still, they were unmentioned, unknown, and the only difference between the pleasant unknown and the bad unknown, is it's a lot easier to accept the pleasant. 

To continue with the point I'm trying to make, comprehending we can't know each other fully we must realize that we are far beyond being able to know all there is to know about our Creator. 

Logic tells us that we have a Creator- logic to anyone willing to delve into the hard cold facts of life that many learned man/woman have had to conclude. Still, we are ultimately led to make a choice in whatever we do choose to believe.

Once we've conclude we've been created, then we need to determine if we want to be involved with our Creator in a loving relationship. You can choose to live your whole life not even acknowledging you were created. You can make ups lies that you will call truths, and live in a world full of things that are coincidental, no miracles but rather blind luck and happenstance. You can also accept that you don't comprehend the whys and wherefores, but you certainly are too smart to get caught up in the fantasy world of believing in a Creator. Your belief is yours and yours alone to choose for whatever reasons you may have, just as I am given the same choice, we all are.

To need full disclosure, every single fact there is out there, before you choose to believe in God- is unrealistic, every bit as unrealistic it is to believe you know anyone other than yourself, fully. And hey, often we really don’t even know ourselves, right? Yet, we have the audacity to believe God owes us full disclosure from the very first question- Why did He really create us if He knew we'd sin? Why did He allow sin in the first place? And so many more questions just like these two. We want to know the whys and wherefores and we call it natural curiosity, and perhaps it is to a point. Or perhaps Satan wants us to dwell on our unanswered questions just as he used curiosity to capture Eve's attention.

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 

Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 

Your eyes shall be opened, and he promised that Eve would know all gods know-  good and evil.  She didn't care about the evil part, did she? She only care that she would KNOW as a god.

So when we ask our questions, those questions we aren't given answers to, and we let those questions overrule our faith, aren't we, like Eve, saying we want to know as a god knows? We want all the knowledge of good and evil. 

Do we choose to be a creature, or like Satan, really want to be like the Most High?

Father in Heaven, please, please we would be creatures! We don't want to be as gods, we don't want to presume to ever get to know everything, as if knowing You  isn't enough. You are enough! You are everything! Through the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, your only begotten, declared Son, we seek forgiveness and newness of life to do Your will! We would be YOURS. Please, keep us from evil, keep us IN YOU and YOUR LOVE ALWAYS!!!!  Thank you, Father! Thank you! In the name of Jesus Christ, now and forever!!!!!!!

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Deu 29:29  The SECRET THINGS BELONG UNTO THE LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. 

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Job 11:7  Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 

Job 28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. 

Psa 25:14  The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. 

Amo 3:7  Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. 

Mat 13:34  All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: 

Mat 13:35  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. 

Act 1:6  When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 

Act 1:7  And he said unto them, IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 

Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 

Eph 1:8  Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 

Eph 1:9  Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 

Eph 1:10  That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 

Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 

Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 

Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. 

Ecc 3:11  He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that NO MAN can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end

Ecc 8:17  Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man CANNOT find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. 

Job 11:7  Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 

Job 11:8  It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 

Job 11:9  The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 

Job 37:23  Touching the Almighty, we CANNOT find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.