Knowing vs. Understanding

I am currently reading Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer.  These three paragraphs spoke to my heart today.

"As Christians, we need to learn to decide to believe.  God often gives us faith (a product of the Spirit) for things that our minds just can't always seem to come into agreement with.  The mind wants to understand everything - the why, the when and the how of it all.  Often, when that understanding is not given by God, the mind refuses to believe what it cannot understand.

It frequently happens that a believer knows something in his heart, but his mind wars against it.

I decided long before to believe what the Word says, and to believe the rhema (the revealed Word) that God gave me (the things He spoke to me or the promises He gave me personally), even if I didn't understand why, when or how it would come to pass in my life."

I can feel the war between my mind, because it doesn't understand, and my heart, because it does.  Faith does seem to be the one thing that quiets the war and yet through it all God's peace is here.  I just needed to have this spoken to me today.