Far Beyond
Today’s Encouragement is, "’My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,’ says the LORD. ‘And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.’” Isaiah 55:8-9 NLT
Far Beyond -
In these two sentences God provides the answer to our relentless questioning of His ways, His intentions, His fairness, justice, even His existence.
We ask others or ourselves, “If God created everything, and if He is good, then why is there so much evil in the world?” “Why do bad things happen to good people?” And thousands of similar thoughts. This is His answer.
Many people have tried to answer these unanswerable questions. Books have been written on them. Universities have taught their beliefs. Philosophers have propounded their theories… and yet, the questions remain.
As loving parents, we often encounter difficult questions from our children. And many times, our considered response must be, “You might not understand right now, but someday you will.” And the child, must choose to accept and trust the parent’s response, or in defiance, seethe with the disquiet of the unknown.
God is infinitely greater than the most loving parent! Just as a child cannot fully understand the wisdom, knowledge, the ways and thoughts of their parents… So also, it is preposterous that we humans, mortal, frail and flawed… could understand all the ways and thoughts of God!
Thank You Father that we can understand that Jesus has revealed You to us. (John 1:18) Help us to trust You as we recognize that we cannot know all of Your ways and Your thoughts, infinitely far beyond our ability to grasp.
Immortal Invisible
Steve Green
https://youtu.be/MlbnP4_yj18?si=CxEdhiJ9_sT7uUC-
Far Beyond -
In these two sentences God provides the answer to our relentless questioning of His ways, His intentions, His fairness, justice, even His existence.
We ask others or ourselves, “If God created everything, and if He is good, then why is there so much evil in the world?” “Why do bad things happen to good people?” And thousands of similar thoughts. This is His answer.
Many people have tried to answer these unanswerable questions. Books have been written on them. Universities have taught their beliefs. Philosophers have propounded their theories… and yet, the questions remain.
As loving parents, we often encounter difficult questions from our children. And many times, our considered response must be, “You might not understand right now, but someday you will.” And the child, must choose to accept and trust the parent’s response, or in defiance, seethe with the disquiet of the unknown.
God is infinitely greater than the most loving parent! Just as a child cannot fully understand the wisdom, knowledge, the ways and thoughts of their parents… So also, it is preposterous that we humans, mortal, frail and flawed… could understand all the ways and thoughts of God!
Thank You Father that we can understand that Jesus has revealed You to us. (John 1:18) Help us to trust You as we recognize that we cannot know all of Your ways and Your thoughts, infinitely far beyond our ability to grasp.
Immortal Invisible
Steve Green
https://youtu.be/MlbnP4_yj18?si=CxEdhiJ9_sT7uUC-
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