Faith Leads To Understanding

Augustine spoke, "I believe that I may understand", a truth that can be drawn from Psalm 131. The Psalmist describes those whose wills have risen before understanding but have had their will broken. Not broken by cruelty or negligent. Instead, the will has been broken by care and love and promised of better and greater sustenance. As believers, we are like a weaned child, calm and quiet, who has come to trust their parent and will come to understand. In that trust we can obey the Psalmist who says "Hope in the Lord!" Hope looks forward on the basis of faith knowing what has already happened and been promised. Faith is the beginning of real, knowledgeable life.