Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Do you ever have those days when you ask the questions,

Why do things have to be so difficult?

Why must it feel like such a struggle to know what the right answer is? Why do I have to struggle with this?

Surely, I’m not the only person who has asked these questions, am I?

If we know scripture, and know the Lord and his promises, we know God is big and perfect and we are not. I’ve said it before, trials and tribulation are inevitable and I believe these are just some of the aspects to us growing in our spiritual life. At times the situation can feel unbearable, almost suffocating. I know I have heard numerous times since my salvation “God will not put more on us than we can bare”, for me personally I can attest to know it to be true, but what I am learning even more is when I enter into a place that feels unbearable, I have to ask myself, “how much of the situation am I trying to control?” Ouch!!!

When pressure builds; our emotions, our fears, anxieties… etc, work overtime to manipulate is into believing the worst? Being in an intimate relationship with Jesus we are gifted with the the Holy Spirit who leads us into certain understanding and all truths, and when we talk with the Lord, it should be solidified in our minds that His thoughts are not our thoughts. ( I know, I can say it a lot easier than I can walking it out). We can’t always see the bigger picture and won’t see it until God is ready to reveal it to us. Sometimes the revealing comes in increments and sometimes it may be days, weeks or even years before we see clearly what God was trying to teach us.

There are times when I have gone into my prayer closet, I’d have my mind made up and could almost envision how I thought the struggle should turn out, (I know, kind of funny, huh😂) but even when I do, it’s not always a bad thing because it is my faith believing in what I don’t yet see, but the important part to it is knowing the waiting and standing are still a requirement until the answer arrives.

God knows me better than I know myself and as much as I strive to be so I realize that my ways are not always like His but I do pray to always have a spirit of humility, to always remain mindful in remembering; His plans for me are for my good and not bad, because when I can become solid in that knowledge, I know it can help me in those dark times of questioning. If we allow ourselves to gleam from Isaiah 55, it will not lead us further from God, but instead draw us closer.

There is nothing God can get from me that He could not do better himself. He loves each of us and pursues us even greater in the darkest hours because as the heavens are higher than the earth so are His ways higher than our ways.

God is love, and this should make us want to know and be amazed by him even more.

Where do your thoughts rest today?