Pleasure In Trust

Pleasure in Trust

Read: Luke 10:21

Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.”

Luke 10:21

“God has His reasons, based on His infinite wisdom, which He does not always choose to reveal to us.”

—Spiros Zodhiates

IN WORD So much of our lives is counterintuitive; it doesn’t make sense on the surface. Trials go against our natural understanding, defying the human reasoning that we rely on so heavily. The road God put us on may take a sudden turn. Circumstances that were comfortable may be radically stripped from us in a moment. Or, we may just question why He made us the way He did. And we wonder how to make sense of it all. We want understanding, but live in confusion.

Jesus gives us a model of how to respond to God when things don’t fit our own wisdom. He is facing no crisis in this text, just acknowledging that the ways of God contradict the ways of man. If we were God, we would not have hidden eternal mysteries from the wise and learned and revealed them to little children. And we certainly are not inclined to praise God for doing so. We are dumbfounded at the obscurity of His logic. But Jesus affirms God’s counterintuitive ways. He simply attributes them to “the good pleasure” of the divine will.

IN DEED Our mouths should be so filled with praise. It’s easy for us to honor the ways of God when they coincide with our logic. It’s difficult when they seem obscure. But an implicit trust in God’s will, curious as it may be to us, is the key to being “full of joy through the Holy Spirit.” It’s also a product of that fullness. They feed each other. Trust in God results in mouths full of praise, while praising God results in hearts full of trust. Are you disturbed by the mysteries of God’s will? Aim to participate in this blessed cycle. Then His good pleasure will be yours.