{"id":2577,"date":"2010-08-03T04:21:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2010-08-02T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T02:22:21","slug":"dave-rave-%e2%80%93-five-things-i%e2%80%99m-ok-with-not-knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/dave-rave-%e2%80%93-five-things-i%e2%80%99m-ok-with-not-knowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rave \u2013 Five Things I\u2019m Ok With Not Knowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"daverave\"I\u2019m loving my life these days, and I\u2019m wondering if it\u2019s not so much that my surroundings have changed (though they have radically<\/em>), but I think it\u2019s because I have changed.<\/p>\n

I dare say it out loud, but maybe I\u2019m growing.\u00a0 Oh my gosh!\u00a0 Dare I say it?\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019m not just stuck repeating the same old stupid things and saying the same old outlandish things.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, here are the five things I\u2019m ok with not knowing.<\/p>\n

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  1. I\u2019m ok with not knowing when the world will end.<\/strong> It seems we\u2019re obsessed with the end of the world.\u00a0 You see it in movies, books, blogs, and hyper-fundamentalist, Christian authorities who seem to get a special word from God.\u00a0 I\u2019m ok with the fact that no man knows the exact date or time.\u00a0 I want to be too much occupied with living in the here and now.<\/li>\n
  2. I\u2019m ok with not knowing why God allows good people to suffer.<\/strong> As we\u2019ve gone through the flood here in Nashville, all of us ask the question why so many good people get flooded out, losing everything.\u00a0 I know it doesn\u2019t satisfy anyone with saying it was just their turn, or cute things like it rains on the just and the unjust. Oh! That\u2019s not cute, that\u2019s actually in the Bible somewhere, right? I just know that bad things happen to all people.\u00a0 I\u2019m not amazed that so many people are hurting.\u00a0 I am actually overwhelmed that there are so many people walking in joy, freedom, passion, and great vision for the future.\u00a0 That\u2019s actually inspiring to me.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let God decide who gets what and when in His wisdom of grace and mercy.<\/li>\n
  3. I\u2019m ok with not knowing what my future holds.<\/strong> Too many of us waste our daily headspace worrying about someplace we can never go, and that\u2019s the future. But once you get into the future, you are now in the present.\u00a0 I\u2019ve committed myself to live for tomorrow, in the now, which means I have a mission, vision, and goals.\u00a0 I know what I am going to be doing this week, next week, and about six months from now.\u00a0 But beyond that, it\u2019s in God\u2019s hands.\u00a0 And before you say it, I\u2019ll say it, even these six months are in God\u2019s hands so why worry about it?<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. I\u2019m ok with not knowing how the people who have <\/strong>deeply <\/strong>hurt me are doing.<\/strong> How much time of our lives is wasted visiting emails or following Twitters of people who we feel hurt by?\u00a0 bottom line is, it\u2019s none of your business how they are doing.\u00a0 Leave that to God.\u00a0 Maybe the hurt they caused you actually was something God intended for good.\u00a0 And if that\u2019s true, you still won\u2019t be able to figure that out.\u00a0 Just simply accept it.<\/li>\n
  5. I\u2019m ok with not knowing how I\u2019ll die.<\/strong> Yes I am taking good care of myself.\u00a0 I\u2019m running, cycling, trying to eat better than I ever have; taking care of myself, mind, body, and spirit.\u00a0 But at the end of the day, who knows what God has in store for me?\u00a0 All I really know for sure is that when this life is over, I have a home in Heaven, guaranteed by the merit and the mercy of Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I\u2019m loving my life these days, and I\u2019m wondering if it\u2019s not so much that my surroundings have changed (though they have radically), but I think it\u2019s because I have changed. I dare say it out loud, but maybe I\u2019m growing.\u00a0 Oh my gosh!\u00a0 Dare I say it?\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019m not just stuck repeating the … Continue reading “Dave Rave \u2013 Five Things I\u2019m Ok With Not Knowing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}