“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”
declares
the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts”
(Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV).
[Jesus
said,] “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but
you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is
with everyone born of the Spirit” (John 3:8 NIV).
Great
peace comes for the inquiring mind when it fully appreciates that
the ways of God will always be mysterious to man. While God in one
sense has let us know fully what is expected of us on earth (the
Fruit of the Spirit as manifested in Christ Jesus), in another sense
his ways are utterly mysterious and it is pointless—even dangerous
for mental health—to strive to piece together every cause and
effect of his actions on earth. The task for us is not to understand
God's ways but to concentrate on God's will for our lives—to bloom
where we are planted. Our prayer should always be for the Lord to
spare us from intellectual arrogance and to grant us instead humility
in performing our tasks on earth.
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