Uncertainty is Certain

I have a friend who owns a special notebook. It contains questions he's been collecting for several years--questions he wants to ask God. Some are funny:
Why did you make mosquitoes?
Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
Why can't women put mascara on with their mouth closed?
Why don't psychics ever win the Lottery?
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Others are deeper, and more difficult:
Why do you allow so much suffering in the world?
If you know everything that's going to happen, do we really have a choice?

We like answers, resolution, loose ends tied down, certainty. Sometimes our faith is challenged by our lack of answers. Like Jacob, we wrestle with God until the dark night fades. We come away with a new identity and a limp; marked for life as a result of the struggle. (see Genesis 32:22-32)

Uncertainty often makes us timid disciples; shrinking back into the comfort of the sanctuary rather than following Jesus into the unknown.

Mark Batterson observes, "Many people think faith reduces uncertainty. Faith doesn’t reduce uncertainty; faith embraces uncertain."

The truth is, we’ll never have all the answers. For some people that's problematic, they feel they can never trust God because He won't answer all their questions.

Jesus never promised security, but he did promise uncertainty. What happens when 'tab A' of experience doesn’t fit into 'slot B' of your beliefs? Our confidence isn’t contingent upon our circumstances. Our confidence is contingent upon the character of God.

To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways; we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation. ~ Oswald Chambers

"Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." ~ Jesus of Nazareth