Apparently a practical spiritual guidebook from some unknown 14th century monk. But the phrase came to me as I thought about my frame of mind of late...
As I've sought to consider what God would have my family and I doing both presently and post Bible college with the general direction of our lives, I seem to be on a journey through some type of cloud of unknowing. There are definite moments of clarity when action is needed, but it doesn't take long before everything is clouded in again.
On the up-side, it's nice not being deluded that I have all the answers. And the process has pushed me to focus on knowing Christ. Whatever we end up doing, it must be an outworking of the glorious gospel of God. Phil 3:10 keeps coming to me, 'I want to know Christ'.
In the end, I'm realising this is what wise living is all about. Job goes through terrible suffering and never actually finds out why. Yet in the process, as he grapples with his experience and what he knows of God, he is given wisdom even to perceive that in the end resurrection awaits him (Job 19:25-27). The great lesson of the book is at the end of the epic poem in the middle, 'The fear of the Lord - that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding'. Though I'm shrouded in the cloud of unknowing, if I keep seeking Jesus, though all the questions my experiences pose might go unanswered, I trust that I will grow in wisdom all the same, which in turn will lead me deeper in my knowledge of him.
Please pray for that wisdom.
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