Encouragement for your walk with Christ, one devotional at a time.

Do you understand God? Do any of us truly understand God? Right when I think I understand God something occurs that I can’t wrap my head around, and my understanding melts away like wax from the flame on a candle. Why do evil people prosper and good people have all the oppression? Why do children have to suffer for no fault of their own? Why can’t mankind find the sweet spot when it comes to uniformity and cooperation? Why can’t we mean what we say and say what is true? All the confusion in this world makes the untrained mind wonder how God could allow all of this madness to happen, doesn’t it? If God loves us so much, why doesn’t He organize this world and make it better?; is a popular question. When God said this… Isaiah 55:8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”, He meant it! And, for us to ever fully understand the mind of God would mean that we had arrived at His level of thinking, and we just can’t do that! Have you ever been around a genius, not able to understand what the heck they are ever talking about? Or, watched a math wizard do things with numbers that don’t make one bit of sense to you? Well, God is so far beyond them that our minds are not even in the same stratosphere as Him! Leaving us to either become like a horse that just succumbs to its Master and does what it’s told, or be a useless animal that lives in obstinance and has no purpose for the Master at all, deciding that God doesn’t make sense, and feeling that we know better than God, and won’t do as He says because we can’t understand Him. When life feels wrong, and you’re wondering where God is in all the madness, digging our heels in and doing our very best to trust His judgment, not growing weary in doing what’s right, and bridling our emotions, is what this is talking about, here.. Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. ¿Submitting to God is about being broken, the very thing none of us want to fully be! Father, rid me of my pride and humble me to understand true submission to You. Break my will, Lord, and cause me to see my own obstinance for what it really is. In Christ’s name, Amen