IYDKNYK

The More Of God

Can I tell you something that took me years to figure out?

People love to say the Bible contradicts itself. And honestly? For a long time, when I cracked open Proverbs, I thought they might have a point.

Here’s what my daily rhythm looks like: I pray Psalm 1 every single morning and I mean every morning. Inserting the names of my loved ones, and whoever else God nudges onto my heart.

Then I move into Proverbs. One chapter for every day of the month. Tidy. Consistent. Disciplined.

And then the confusion hits.

Because Proverbs will tell you one thing in one verse and something that looks like the opposite thing a few lines later. I stared at those passages for years. I turned them over. What is happening here, Lord?

Don’t believe me? Look at Proverbs 26, verses 4 and 5. Back to back. No transition. No explanation.

“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.”

Followed immediately by:

“Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.”

One verse says don’t do it. The very next verse says do it. I mea, come on.

And then one day, in that quiet tender way, not a thunderclap, just a whisper, the Holy Spirit sat me down and explained it.

In some seasons, you follow one piece of advice. In other seasons, you follow the other.

That was it!

It made sense!

Simple sense!

That was the whole answer.

And it cracked me wide open!

I love how the Holy Spirit teaches. Not rushed. Not overwhelming. He waited until I was ready, really ready and then He opened it up with such depth, such care, making sure I understood completely.

That’s what I call the “More of God”.

That progressive, ever-deepening revelation where the more you seek Him, the more He reveals. The more He reveals, the more you understand. The more you understand, the more you want.

God knows when the student is ready to learn.

And here’s what wrecked me about those two verses: He didn’t forget to edit Proverbs. He wasn’t confused. He wasn’t contradicting Himself.

He wrote a book that accounts for every season of your life. He knew you’d go through the wilderness and the mountaintop. The abundance and the famine.

The seasons where you hold on and the seasons where you let go. The seasons where you speak and the seasons where you stay silent.

And He made sure the wisdom was already waiting for you, in both directions.

I don’t know how He does it.

I genuinely don’t.

But the more I pursue the “More of God”, the more I sit in the enormity of that kind of mind, the less impressed I am by human brilliance.

And I mean that with all the love in my heart. Brilliant people are remarkable. But they are FINITE. God thought of every season of every human life across all of history and tucked the right wisdom into one book.

That’s not brilliant. That’s God.

And that’s the whole point, isn’t it? The more you pursue Him, the more you stand in awe of Him. The more everything else shrinks by comparison. That’s not arrogance. That’s clarity.

So here’s my takeaway, for you, for me, for all of us who’ve been dazzled by the world’s version of smart:

Don’t be deceived.

The world has impressive people. Impressive ideas. Impressive credentials. But the One who created the world, who created you, specifically, on purpose, with intention, He has wisdom prepared for every season you will ever face.

He has a plan for your life that no human brilliance could ever dream up.

Your seasons are not random. Your confusion is not permanent. Your story is not finished.

He’s just waiting for you to be ready.

And when you are? He will meet you there, tenderly, completely, with the more of Him.

So as young people say….IYDKNYK which means, if you don’t know, now you know! 🥰😳🥰Xoxo, Mamma

(Not bad for a boomer that can speak genz!) Hay Now!