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Ignorance is Bliss

            I’m grateful for what I don’t know.   God in His goodness keeps all knowledge to Himself. Even after Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we still are blessed not to know some things.   Jesus recognized that He could not tell the disciples all that He knew :   I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now (John 16:12) and that it would be up to the Holy Spirit to fill us in (John 14:26).               Jesus, on the other hand, fully knew what awaited Him in the garden and on the following day of unjust trials ending in His being put to death in the most shameful and inhumane way on the Roman cross.   His prayers for another way were genuine and evidence of His full knowledge of what God had asked of Him.             I’m grate...