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The Blessing of Not Knowing

We all have questions, especially about the future and how it affects us personally, but many answers are best not known for they burden us unnecessarily.
If I know something I shouldn’t know, by obtaining it illegally, whatever benefits are derived from knowing, will be offset by penalties that come from knowing what is not yours to know.
Therefore, God does not answer many questions we have. Knowing the answers would be detrimental to our health, and how we act and re-act in the future.
Not knowing is a blessing. But it is especially a course if knowledge is obtained illegally. Even if knowledge not intended for you comes your way legally, or accidentally, it can cause you the same harm as if obtained illegally.
If we accept information from someone else, but not intended for us, it is still harmful to us. Just because information is interesting does not mean that it is useful or good to know.
Many things are interesting but harmful.
There are blessings in not knowing, what one is not supposed to know.
Illegal knowledge is a course.
False knowledge produces worry. And worry is sin.

Why pray if you can worry!
The problem is not the problem.
Your reaction to the problem is the problem.
If you can change it, change it.
If you can not change it, put it into the hands of God.
If you can pray, why worry!
Why worry, if you can pray!
Worry is the opposite of faith.

Anonymous

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