Isaiah 55:8,9 says,For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. God seldom acts or moves the way we think He should.The thirty years of our Lord’s hidden life has a great bearing on the three and a half. The forty years of Moses away back there in the desert, looking after those sheep of his father-in-law, had a great bearing on the rest of his life. They were not lost, wasted, futile years. And so we could take up one after another — Abraham, David, and others, who had a long deep, secret, hidden history; it was out of that that the effectiveness came. Very often more is done, when God has been at work, in the last few years of a life than in all the years previously. That does not mean that all the previous years have been of no account, having no place. It means that God has been at work to get intrinsic values, and now at last these values are coming out.If God decided to explain all His ways to me, what makes me think I would be able to understand them? It would be like trying to count all the sand of the earth. Didn’t one Old Testament author write, “As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things” (Ecclesiastes 11:5)? If you ever hear someone say, “I’ve got God figured out” you know they are also mistaken. Romans 11:33-36 says, “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! GOD IS SO GREAT THAT YOU’LL NEVER FULLY UNDERSTAND HIM!
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 00:11:53 +0000
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