Beauty is found on the other side of i don't know

​The older I get, the more I realize the secret to life isn't found in what I know, it's found in what I do with my life when I don't know.

It's how I handle I don't have a clue.

Because the reality is, and some of us will be more open to admitting this than others, we don't have a clue. Even when we think we do, we really don't.

The bible tells us the story of Abraham, the father of all nations. And the bible says in Hebrews, "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going."

Even though he did not know where he was going....

How often, when we feel called to a place, to an experience, to a possibility, to our future, to our legacy - how often, when called, do we think this call must be to a wrong number, because I don't know how to go there?

When I move to toward the limits of what I know, I move within the limits of my own strength.

When I move with faith outside the limits of what I know, outside the limits of what I could ever possibly know, I walk with God.

And Abraham.

And Moses.

And Noah.

And all of you who have felt so strongly about where you have been called to go that you totally dismissed the reality you had no idea how to get there.

Yet, there you are.

Oh, how I long to be a star chaser and not one waiting on stars to align.

Oh, how I long to be the pursuer of answers and not one waiting on answers to arrive.

Oh, how I long to bask in the beauty of what I don't yet know and not a prisoner to all that I do.

Oh, how I long to see I don't have a clue as a measure of my faith and not my foolishness.

Oh God, I don't have a clue, but you do.

So little of your clue is found in what I know; so much of it is found in the even though I don't know.

Maybe a great place for all of us to start today is by confessing, I don't have a clue. But you know what, nonetheless, I'm going into the world today seeking it's beauty.

Adding to its beauty.

Even though.

I don't know.