God’s Ways Are Higher

Breathe Deep and Know: God knows what He’s doing even if you don’t understand it. You can trust Him.

If we were holding the pen, we’d probably write our stories differently. Perhaps we’d edit out a particular section that wasn’t pleasant or skip over a bit that required some learning and growth. But His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts.

Trying to understand the ways of God is like trying to describe the depths of the entire ocean by studying only a single drop of seawater. There is just so much we can’t see, so much we don’t know, and so much God has in store for us that we’ll comprehend only when we see Him face to face.

So when circumstances don’t make sense, when you have more questions than answers, when you don’t understand what God is doing, remember that He sees far more than you can and His thoughts are far higher than yours. You may never be able to fully understand the ways of God, but you don’t have to. You can trust that His ways are for your good, to bring you closer to Him and to grow you in holiness.

“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

inhale:

YOUR THOUGHTS ARE NOT MY THOUGHTS,

exhale:

YOUR WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN MINE.