Be Humble: You Don’t Know a Thing

There are times when I’m grinding hard on a project.

Late nights.

Head down.

Putting in the work.

And when I finally finish, I’ll look at it and think,

Man, I’m proud of this.

Other times I’m soaking up knowledge —

reading books, listening to podcasts, watching mentors and coaches I respect.

And if I’m being honest, sometimes it starts to feel like I know everything.

But then I open the Word of God.

And that’s where it either encourages me or convicts me — sometimes both.

That’s just who I am.

That’s Henry the person, and Henry the entrepreneur.

I’ve always been drawn to the story of Job.

God called him righteous.

But then He let him go through suffering that honestly makes you stop and ask:

Dang, God, I thought you said he was righteous?

Why would you let him go through all that? I don’t understand.

And that’s when I realize:

We obviously don’t know what we think we do.

Jesus said following Him wouldn’t be easy.

That suffering would come.

That serving others is the higher calling.

But if I’m being real, a lot of us weren’t taught that version of the story.

We thought faith meant ease, not hardship.

But that’s not the truth.

It reminds me of something I used to do when I’d visit Siesta Key Beach in Sarasota, Florida.

I’d walk right up to where the waves hit my feet and stop —

where the ocean meets its boundary.

I’d think about the scripture that says God assigned the sea its limit.

He spoke to the sea and said,

“This far and no farther.”

That’s the same God who answered Job out of the whirlwind.

And He didn’t answer with explanations.

He answered with questions.

Questions that shut everything down

and brought clarity through humility.

And as an entrepreneur, these questions hit differently.

Because they remind me that all control is His.

Even my business journey is spiritual.

Here are six of those questions and how they hit me today:

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?”

You didn’t start this.

God is the ultimate builder.

You are a steward, not the source.

“Who marked off its dimensions, surely you know?”

Strategy and structure belong to Him.

The blueprint you’re working on?

He’s the Master Architect.

“Have you ever commanded the morning or shown the dawn its place?”

God controls timing.

You can’t force your season.

Stay faithful in the wait.

“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen Orion’s belt?”

You don’t hold influence together.

The platforms, the audience, the reach — that’s His doing.

“Do you know the laws of the heavens?”

You may know business principles.

But the real laws of increase, favor, and overflow?

God governs those.

“Can you bring forth the constellations in their season?”

You can’t manufacture divine alignment.

That open door?

That opportunity?

He releases it at the right time.

When you look at it through that lens, these aren’t just rhetorical questions.

They’re reminders.

Sometimes gentle.

Sometimes not so gentle.

God is God.

And you are not.

And honestly, thank God for that.

Because if everything rested on your understanding,

your plan,

your power —

you would have burned out by now.

But it doesn’t.

He provides.

He leads.

He knows.

So yeah, be humble.

You don’t know a thing.

But that’s not a bad thing.

It’s a freeing thing.

Because the One who does know?

He’s with you.

And He’s for you.

Henry C. Murphy

Nothing but up from here.