What Now? - Week 2 | Ps. Micah Pelkey

John 13 

 

1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

 

2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;

 

3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

 

4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

 

5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

 

6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

 

7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

 

 

 

 

The Unknown 

 

 

Isaiah 55

 

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

 

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

 

 

 

 

How do I respond to the unknown?

 

 

 

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. 

— Philip Yancey

 

 

 

God Knows

 

 

 

Jeremiah 1:5 — “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

 

 

 

Matthew 10:30 — But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

 

 

 

Psalm 1:6 — For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

 

 

 

Psalm 147:4-5

He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite. 

 

 

 

Isaiah 40:28 — Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

 

 

 

Psalm 142:3 — When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk they have secretly set a snare for me.

 

 

 

Job 23

 

8 “But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him.

 

9 When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.

 

10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

 

 

 

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. 

— Corrie Ten Boom