"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
(Isa. 55:8-9)
A famous bus company had for their slogan, "Take the bus and leave the driving to us." This is not the case for most of us when it comes to God and His ways; rather than leaving the driving to Him, we're backseat drivers.
How like Naaman of the Old Testament we are. Because God didn't do things in his life according to his preconceived ideas of how they should be done, it sent him into a quandary. His problem is seen in his words, "I thought..."
It is a serious thing to second-guess God. It can overthrow your faith. This is seen in Acts 12 at the prayer meeting in John Mark's mother's house, Mary when the early Christians were praying for Peter's release from prison.
When Peter showed up at the door, they didn't believe it was him. Why? Because this was not the way they had anticipated. They had been seeing outward miracles daily in answer to their prayers, and they imagined this particular prayer would be answered in the same way as the others were answered. But they thought wrong!
There is no situation in which we can figure out God and the way He will do things. The distance between our thoughts and His is too far, as David said, "It is too high I cannot attain unto it." It is infinitely above us. We must abandon our ideas and comply with God's ways.
Whenever you make your request to God, leave it with God!
By An Old Disciple
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