Monday, May 3, 2010

"...my ways are higher than your ways and my thought than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:9)

God is like calculus and we are like first graders learning simple mathematics. How can we expect to understand the ways of God when we cannot even add 2 and 2 together? But just because we cannot fathom Him or His ways does not make Him any less real. The derivative of lnx is 1/x whether I agree with it or not. Truth exists outside the confines of man, so how then can a person reject something as not being true just because they do not understand it? That is why reason is an insufficient thing for a person to place their trust. Reason can only go so far as the person who owns it has already been. As beautifully penned by Andy Andrews in his book, "The Traveler's Gift":



"Reason never makes room for miracles; faith releases miracles. And in final comparison, faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only be stretched so far, but faith has no limits. The only limit to your realization of tomorrow is the doubt to which you hold fast today".


God has plans for me (Jer. 29:11). It is not my responsibility to understand them, only to obey them. Such obedience takes faith. Elton Trueblood states, "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." Trust in God is the expression of knowing He is good. It also demonstrates an imitate relationship with the Maker, that can only come from a geniune love with Him. I want to be crazy, dangerously in love with Him, where I place no bounds on what He can do with me and through me.

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