GOD,
WAYS OF

HAVE YOU ever talked to one of these brilliant PhD-kind-of-people and you don’t know what they’re talking about? You know it’s deep, even though you don’t understand any of it because they’re just communicating on a whole different plane, on a whole different level.

At the heart of many of our dilemmas is our inability to know God’s ways. God says that as high as the heavens are above the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. They’re not only bigger, they’re higher. His thoughts are at another level.376

[Circumstances, Understanding; God’s Ways, Unpredictability of]

Ps. 92:5; Isa. 55:8–9

I REMEMBER telling God as a teenager, “God, I’m going to do anything You want, but I will not pastor.” He said, “Um-hmm.”

He’s full of surprises and His ways are not your ways. His thoughts are not your thoughts.377

[God’s Ways, Unpredictability of]

Isa. 55:8–9; 1 Cor. 2:16

ONE difference between God and us is that we have different viewpoints. Take a parade. We watch a parade progressively. We watch one band come after another. We watch the parade go by one band at a time. God sees the whole parade. He doesn’t have to wait for each band to turn the corner. From the starting place to the finish, He sees the whole parade. He sees the whole package. That’s why “without faith it’s impossible to please God.” You’ve got to believe He sees what you can’t. You’ve got to believe that He sees what is not visible to you because you can’t see around the corner.378

[Faith; Time, Perspective on; Trust in God]

Ps. 33:13; Heb. 4:13