Whoever said, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you”?

This adage usually holds only a temporary truth.

Once when we were on vacation, we did not know that a pipe had burst in our home.

We were blissfully ignorant of a reality that would have ruined our vacation.

However, had we known about it, we could have called a neighbor, and saved a lot of hurt when we got home!

Perhaps you are ignorant of a ticking time bomb of cancer in your body.

Can you say, “What I don’t know won’t hurt me?”

Not knowing about a disease within may be bliss for a time, but knowing about it asap can mean the difference between life and death.

Suppose someone had a difficult battle fighting cancer only to be killed in a car accident at the end of their treatment?

Would ignorance have been bliss for that person had they not known of their cancer?

Theoretically in the physical realm, perhaps.

But when our steps are ordered each day by our Creator, how can we say there is bliss in being ignorant of His purposes throughout life’s journey?

For the child of God, there are rich blessings and treasures to be laid up in heaven even in the valleys.

We can willfully choose to avoid becoming informed about our health, our world, or troubles all around us.

But living with your head stuck in the sand like an ostrich will not change the inevitable.

Life is an adventure to learn how to respond to all obstacles not just for ourselves, but to better help others traveling the same road.

Of course, we should be blissfully ignorant of the many ways to practice evil.

That kind of bliss requires knowledge of the only God who can change our inherently wicked hearts.

Being ignorant of God is not bliss.

It is just ignorance that will lead to eternal death.

Next: Your family sees the real you.

Dan Williams is the senior adult pastor at Lexington Baptist Church.