Trust in the Lord, continued...

A few additional thoughts on my last post.

1) I found this scripture:

The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law (Deuteronomy 29:29)

Backup up the thought that whatever knowledge the Lord has revealed to man is for our use. E.g., medical knowledge.

2) Regarding Confidence. "We are most confident in that with which we are the most familiar". I learned this phrase from Dr. Glen Kimber, son-in-law of Cleon Skousen and founder of Kimber Academy, the intellectual predecessor of Prosperity Learning Center where Maya, Emma, and Joseph go 12 hours a week for education to supplement their home-education.
Emma's meet demonstrated this. Because she left the full gymnastics training for 18 months and did only tumbling traing at Jolley's Gymnastics, she got intense focus on tumbling skills, which are what Floor Excercises is mostly. So, she is HIGHLY confident on floor, and took Second Place in floor in her first meet. She took 5th, and 6th place in the other events -- Uneven Bars, Balance Beam, and Vault. So, if looking at her skills, she's a 5th-6th place skill-wise with her peers, but on Floor she goes outside her 'average' and excels. She is more familiar with it, and highly confident. She is more relaxed, and doesn't stress about Floor as she does the other.
I believe we will have more confidence in the Lord, the more familiar we become with him. If we spend hours and hours of our lives viewing television (hey, I like Terminator, the Sarah Conner Chronicles as much as the next guy :), our familiarity is with fiction. Our confidence will be in 'vain imaginations'. If we were to spend those hours and hours instead on reality -- on becoming experts on the doctrines of the gospel, our confidence will be with that which we are most familiar.

-Joe