Lately, a lot of what I have been going through just doesn’t make sense. I struggled with how what God seemed to have been showing me was going contrary to what was happening around me. In the midst of all my emotional and spiritual turmoil, a friend sent a song, which I had never heard of before. She wanted me to not only listen to it, but also read the lyrics. The song was God Moves in Mysterious Ways. He surely does and it is so amazing even how He sends encouragement through His people. This hymn was actually a poem written by William Cowper, who had chronic depression that led him to be admitted to an insane asylum, but God used this all for good. After I received this hymn, days later another friend quoted from it as a comment for one of my YouTube videos in which I had expressed how I had felt in all the uncertainties. The amazing thing about all this is that the quote matches with what I was going to write about this week. God truly knows how to write an article. I am just His hands, and His Spirit dictates the words.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face
My sense is without a doubt weak. I have no idea what the Lord is doing, but I do have to trust Him as He leads. And how He leads may not make sense to me, but I still have to obey Him because He sees the full picture, when I can only see where His word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I cannot comprehend His vastness and all He knows and understands. We often quote Isaiah 55, but I don’t think that some of us really understand how profound this Scripture passage is.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says 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. Isaiah 55:7-9
Last week, I felt so wicked and unrighteous as I doubted God, not trusting His ways. Nothing made sense to me, and unbelief rushed in and started to flood my thoughts. Inundated with doubt, I felt as if I were drowning in a quagmire of unbelief as I knew I was losing faith in my Mighty God. Unlike Abraham, my belief in the Lord, would not be counted as righteousness. So, I had to do a reset. In the middle of the night, I got up and started to praise God for His goodness and His greatness. I still didn’t know what was going to happen after the end of my praise session, but I put the One who knows back in focus, realizing whatever happened He was with me. Therefore, no matter what waters I had to pass through, or rivers I had to go through, or fire I had to walk through, I knew He was with me, and He would not let the rivers overflow me or the fire burn me. I was still concerned about what the future would hold, but I had started looking again at the One who holds the future. He knows the beginning from the end, and I recognized I had to follow His Spirit’s promptings. He made a way for me to do what He was directing me to do and positioned people in place to help me. When everything seemed over, He breathed new life into what I thought was a moribund situation. Hallelujah!!! He is worthy to be praised.
I will love You, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. Psalm 18:1-3
I am thankful for a God who answers when I call and even delivers me from my own doubts and fears when nothing makes sense.
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