All I Need to Know

Do you often feel like you have more questions than answers? I surely feel that way today, and as I revisited some devotionals I wrote a few years ago, I heard my own voice circling back to me: maybe I know enough for today. So I want to share this piece which helped me this morning, and maybe it will help you, too. I pray that it will. “I don’t know much, but I know I love you, and that may be all I need to know.” These are the words of a memorable duet recorded by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt . . . boy, that dates me! It was one of those songs that captured my attention from the first time I heard it and I can even remember where I was when it first came on the radio: the parking lot of Myrtle Square Mall, which also dates me since that mall doesn’t exist anymore! I loved it because it was romantic and because I love melodic duets, but recently God used those words to speak to me in another way. I have been in a very hard season lately . . . a stagnant season, a dry season . . . and through it all, I have learned some urgent lessons, but the most important one God has shown me is this: life must be about knowing Him, about seeking His face, about just loving Him first and foremost. And in the words of the song, “That may be all I need to know.” Right now, I don’t know exactly what my future holds, but I know that I am passionately, tenaciously and gloriously in love with God. I am hungry once again to know His word because it helps me to know Him. I am content to linger in His presence and know He is there. I have accepted that He is not going to show me everything right now, but Christ, the light of the world, is going to give me enough light for where I am today, enough light to see where I’m standing right now and just a tiny bit ahead. Enough light to see into a God-given dream. The Bible tells us that when we delight in Him, He will give us the desires of our heart, and I desire to know Him. I also desire to serve Him through music and testimony, and I know that He will honor that in His time and in His way, and it will be exceedingly and abundantly more than I can ask or think. I am dreaming big, but His dreams are bigger, and so it’s enough to know Him. To call him Father and Friend. To share my thoughts, concerns, and dreams. To converse with Him . . . the maker of the universe and the waterer of my dry season. He will do that for all of us, salvaging our arid deserts in the dry season until the rains come, and they do come. So for now, I don’t know much, but I know I love You, Lord, and that is definitely all I need to know.