We live in a world where it seems that everyone wants to know everything, and they want to know it now. The internet certainly is a contributing factor because of the speed in which almost any type of information can be accessed. As Christians, the more we study the Bible the more we realize that we do not need to know the answer to everything. The secret things belong to God, but the things revealed belong to us as Moses related to the Israelites in Deuteronomy 29:29. We often wonder and perhaps would even like to know what the future holds for us. We probably all know people who have developed a tendency to catastrophize, especially about health issues. To catastrophize means to ‘overestimate the danger and underestimate the ability to cope’. It leads to fear and is the opposite of faith. Fear tells us that we will not be able to cope whereas faith tells us that our Heavenly Father knows our needs and will supply the sufficient strength at just the right time. During his reign as king, God gave David victory over all his enemies. As he looked back at these battles he declared, “For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.” (Psalm 18:39). Like David, we don’t know what battles lie ahead. But, also like David, we can have confidence that God will arm us with needed strength to face future uncertainties as he has in the past. Much of the book of Job deals with Job’s suffering and raises the question, ‘why does God allow suffering?’ God asks Job 49 questions about the natural universe in chapters 38 and 39. The point of God’s questioning is to demonstrate that there are certain things that we do not know as human beings – the ‘secret things’ that belong to God alone. This is especially true as it relates to the issue of suffering. Just like God never told Job why he was suffering, we also may not understand the reason for our suffering. The book of Job is not so much about why God allows suffering as it is about his presence in the midst of suffering and how we should respond. In God’s perfect wisdom he has revealed to us what we need to know and kept secret those things which we do not need to know. As the saying goes, ‘we don’t know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future.’