| While “the secret things belong unto the Lord our God … those things which are revealed belong to us, and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law,” and there are certain things which the Lord especially wants us to know. He wants all of us who have trusted His Son to know that we are saved eternally, and “these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” Thus we can assuredly say that “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.” We can also know concerning the varied circumstances of our lives, for in the plan and provision and providence of God, “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” And there is no uncertainty as we look to the future. “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.” |
