Acts 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Proverb 16:9 A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
Don’t you love it when a plan comes together? Likewise, how frustrating is it when your best laid plans fall apart? Those are human experiences and human emotions. That has nothing to do with our God, the creator and the one perfect in order and performance. Nothing frustrates God’s planning, nothing.
It is beyond our human ability to see all the variables that might play out in any given set of circumstances, much less all of them for all time. That is why God is God and we are not. God knew before He spoke one word into creation all that would happen until the end of time.
Given that God is eternal and time is not an issue for God, how many plans did God scrap before He settle the one we are living out in time? If God chose this plan, isn’t that preordained in the sense that He scrapped all the other plans in favor of this one? Is that too much for you to wrap your mind around? I don’t blame you. It just occurred to me for the first time just now.
Does that make this thought true? No, but I have to ask myself, if God is perfect in performance, wouldn’t His planning of creation also be perfect? Given that He is perfect, what happens with us?
If God directs your steps then the only option left to us is one of awareness and attitude. Awareness comes from knowing God and attitude is developed in relationship.
Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Are you going to see God’s goodness or walk around blindly?
I’m just glad that He is God and I am not. I’m glad I trust him without exceptions and I’m glad I don’t have to understand everything. It feels like the more we know about God,what we really learn, is how much we don’t know.if that makes sense. Happy for my child like faith and for knowing that’s all I have to have. All the other mind bending questions are interesting and deep and stimulating to talk about. Very good devotional today.
Yes, Phyllis that is so true. But as I said, this isn’t proof only thought provoking consideration of all that God is and can do which is so far above our abilities to grasp fully.
Larry and Phyllis–your posts both have touched my heart and given me a fresh realization of the AWESOMENESS of the Person and work of my precious Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Without HIM I would never know the perfection of the GOD Who created this wonderful universe that we so richly enjoy. I bow my head and heart in total worship. He is the One I love, and like you, Phyllis, am happy for my child like faith that is anchored “firm and deep in my Savior’s love” (quote from an old hymn we used to sing)
Larry, thanks to you for your heart warming post, and Phyllis, thanks to you for your heart warming blog. We have both “seen God’s goodness and not walked around blindly” PTL!!!!