R.C. Sproul

But yet sometimes people think, well, if you're a theologian or if you're a minister or something like that, you can pry into things.

Now, I may have understanding of things that God has revealed that people who aren't students of theology lack, but I certainly cannot include in that understanding a personal knowledge of the hidden counsel of God.

I don't usually say that to people.

Why do you ask me a question like that?

But what I do say sometimes offends them and leaves them in no small amount of consternation.

And that's when I say to them, you know, in the final analysis, you shouldn't be worried about the hidden counsel of God because it's none of your business.

We remember that Luther during the Reformation was famous for his comment, let God be God.

And there is a kind of sinful inclination that we have, like the people in the Old Testament, to try to pry into things, particularly as they relate to the future, that are none of our business.

And that they reflect not so much an act of faith, but an act of unbelief.

we are called to trust God for tomorrow, to walk by faith, not in darkness but in the light of His Word.

That is, we are to live, as Jesus said, by every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God, and it takes more than a lifetime to learn that manifestation of the will of God without trying to pry into what He hasn't revealed.

And I think we can take comfort in that.

that there are reasons why God hasn't revealed everything about the plans that He has for you and for me.

Those things really aren't any of our business, and reading the horoscope in the morning is an act of unbelief.

We're not to be doing that.

Calvin made this observation.

He says, when God closes His holy mouth, I will desist from inquiry.

That's a good motto.

I think we are to work as hard as we can to understand as deeply as we can everything that God has revealed.

But beyond that, having done all, we stand and we are to live according to that which He has revealed.