“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. – Isaiah 55:8 (NIV)
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. – Isaiah 55:8 (KJV)
Theme: Trusting God’s Plan
This is our 6th week on this theme. Review previous posts on this topic here: In Whom Do You Trust?, Straight Paths, Lift Your Eyes, My Help From the Lord, His Plans
There are things I just don’t understand about how God operates. Have you ever wondered why God did something a certain way or why He allowed a particular event to happen? I wonder about things like this all the time…
Why does God allow bad things to happen…especially to “good” people?
Why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden in the first place?
Why did He even let the devil tempt Adam and Eve…especially if He already knew they would give in to the temptation?
Why did He choose a flood to cleanse the world…was there really no other way?
Why did he create such a massive universe with stars so far away when we live in such a small part of it?
Why did Jesus have to suffer and die on a cross…God can do anything…was there no other way?
And so on…why, why, why…
God’s Word provides answers to some questions like these, but there are many that we’ll likely never be capable of understanding during our time on this earth. Isaiah 55:8 reminds us why — God just doesn’t think the way we do (and, by the way, thank you God for that). Even more, verse 9 tells us that God’s thoughts and ways are not even close to ours, with His thoughts being as high above ours “as the heavens are higher than the earth.” The truth is that we are simply not capable of fully comprehending God’s ways…and that’s ok.
There’s a popular song on Christian radio stations today that relates to this:
“When you don’t move the mountains I’m needing you to move,
When you don’t part the waters I wish I could walk through,
When you don’t give the answers as I cry out to you,
I will trust, I will trust, I will trust in you”
(“Trust in You” by Lauren Daigle)
We won’t always understand why things happen the way they do, but we can know for certain that God is always in control and trust that His plans are always perfect.
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