His point in all this is that the most we may know for certain is that there is a divine plan, “even though individual steps in the plan remain a mystery, and must be accepted by faith. But man must never lose the realization that there is a plan, and he must never begin to treat the common things of life, his food and drink and work, as though they were not the gifts of God. Hence man must learn to serve God from his youth and he must remember that there is to be judgment [11:9–10].… In other words,