Isaiah 55:8
New International Version (NIV)

 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.

For Meditation

 It is absolutely comical to observe how people struggle with the “Whys” and the “Hows” of things from God’s perspective. It is pitiful and quite depressing to see mere humans, trying to investigate God or dragging Him to their court for interrogation. You can see their frustration as they struggle to bring God’s thoughts to conform to theirs. The simple truth is that, the ways of God are far beyond our best imagination and intellectual capacity. No human mind is able to capture His thoughts. God chooses to reveal as much as He wants to, and nothing more.

1. Why then do we burden ourselves by trying to understand why some things happen the way they do and why God allows them?
2. Why do we try to get into God’s mind to probe His thoughts, as a psychologist probes the thoughts of their clients? Why do we try to track His ways?
3. Can we stop it right there? For, who made us psycho-analysts of the One who created us?
4. Can we humbly accept the fact that God’s thoughts are beyond our comprehension (Is. 55:8)? Can we just understand that His ways are far beyond ours, and that we cannot make them fit into our human pattern or mold?
5. Wouldn’t it be easier to just trust and obey, instead of struggling to ‘solve’ God like a jigsaw puzzle?

I pray we finally settle this matter for the last time, acknowledging that God is too lofty (Is. 6:1) for any human to completely know and understand Him.

So: May we zip it, freeze it, and yield to the Most High God; and may we confess with Job that we “spoke of things [we] did not understand, things too wonderful for [us] to know … and [we] repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:3-6).

Shalom