“Blessed are we, O Israel,
for what pleases God is known to us!”
(Baruch 4:4)
Dear Friends –
All knowledge begins with Almighty God. The Author of life set about the rules and regulations for material existence. In time, humankind came to understand how some of the natural world operates; the infallibility of its design only reveals God’s greatness. 
That same perfection was implemented by Almighty God in His rendering of the supernatural world with rules and regulations for its best spiritual existence. If man creates in defiance of God’s physical laws, it ends in a death-like-disaster as in air and water pollution. Against God’s mandates to live without sin, man’s insolence only brings about his own spiritual destruction if left unaided. God shared His knowledge with mankind in order to establish a friendly relationship of love and trust, not tyranny. Curious minds seek to understand, others could care less, making faith that ability to believe without comprehension. Many of us are sure there is an invisible God primarily because of the plausible revelations of His being in The Bible, and particularly those accountings of His being divulged by His Son, Jesus Christ, who walked the earth.
Scientists have discovered the knowledge behind God’s miraculous natural creations, but only the Theologians of old uncovered the wisdom behind God’s disposition of laws for man’s supernatural existence.
Knowledge is the facts – wisdom learns how to use those facts. Someone once said that knowing that a tomato is considered a fruit is truth, however, to know not to put it in a fruit salad is wisdom! When God set supernatural law into existence by His rules for behavior, it brought to light the consequences of right and wrong behavior; consequently, from exposure to that knowledge, man was endowed with the wisdom to choose which behavior he or she wanted. Since experience is the best teacher, as in the Prodigal Son, we garner wisdom from example, and The Bible is full of examples to learn knowledge and wisdom.
When you become familiar with those trial and error lessons God 
set before us in the Old Testament, as well as the precise dictates uttered by Jesus in the New Testament, you can in all honesty say, what pleases God is known to us! And therefore, blessed are we, chosen by God to be wise in this world of knowledge with the help of His gifts of grace. He has made known to you the way to heaven… not everyone is so blessed… feel how special you are to Him!
“I TOLD YOU SO!”
Pouring salt into an open wound may be likened to the pain one feels when someone gloats over you, especially when the disclosure of your failure results in their uttering, “I told you so!” You spurned their advice to do it your own way, and they are letting you know, they were right. Parents overrule their small 
children’s bad decisions by pulling rank and requiring them to do something the parents’ way. However, as the children grow older, a certain leeway is afforded the child to learn a lesson from experience, and so permission is reluctantly granted to proceed with action determined to failure. It takes a strong loving parent to avoid an “I told you so” moment when the humbled child admits defeat; a parent feeling disrespected, untrusted, or belittled could very easily rub the salt into the wound with some earned, very caustic remarks… but they don’t. They bite their tongue to avoid such utterances and hug their shattered loved one until they feel whole again. The greatest example of this perfect love was given to us by Jesus in the widely known parable of the Prodigal Son. The father in that tale was Christ’s way of showing us how great is our Father’s love when sinners return to Him. We have offended God with sinful life, and He has every right to be vengeful and tell us, “I told you what would happen if you sinned,” but He doesn’t, He just hugs us tight until we are whole again.
Jesus is no different than The Father in that regard, for He had many times in His public ministry that He could have critically reprimanded with an “I told you so.” In the Old Testament, a Messiah had been prophesized who would “suffer greatly, be killed, and raised on the third day for the salvation of mankind.” 
Jesus repeated this fact to His disciples over and over again, and yet, when it truly happened, they couldn’t believe it and hid away in fear. He explained many times thereafter, individually and to groups, how it played out exactly as predicted, and never once said, “I told you and I told you this was going to happen!” Jesus told Peter that he would deny Him three times before the cock crowed, and just as Peter rendered his third denial and the cock crowed, he made eye contact with Jesus, recollected the warning, and wept bitterly… but Jesus never said, “I told you so!” When Jesus went to raise Lazarus from the dead and was told by Martha that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days and there would be a stench, He brought the man back to life anyway without a word of reprimand to anyone for not believing He could do what He said.
Why is it so hard for us to believe that God says exactly 
what He means, especially when it’s known He has never lied to us? Sinners must realize that the merciful God that He is will never humiliate us in any manner for our wrongdoings when we admit our offenses to Him. Those who can’t confess their sins and ask for forgiveness will find themselves in hell one day wondering for all eternity… “Why couldn’t I believe... why didn’t I listen when I was told?”
