Isaiah 41:28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

Silence is the most difficult of answers to understand. It leaves you with a nagging feeling that something is going on that you are not prepared to handle. That is natural. As much as you would like to think you understand human nature, circumstances for which you have no knowledge plays as much a part in the minds of those opposing you as anything. It is the X factor.

It is hard to place yourself in someone else’s position, to understand what they are thinking and planning, if you have not shared in their life. It was an ancient wise man that would give his son to his enemy to be raised as a son. The only way that enmity could be dissolved between the two worlds was to send a trusted son to live among them. In that way his son could speak to his father about the hearts of a people he did not understand.

I’ve been thinking about men who say that if they were God they would do things differently. I understand that, but would their reign yield better results? These men do not think things out to the end. Most of them do their vanity exercise in the hopes of destroying everyone they hate. Doing that makes more enemies and leads to distrust among those who are not destroyed. He would end up with more enemies and eventually alone.

A king without subjects is a land owner.

So realistically is there a better way to build trust and loyalty among men than what God has done?

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.