God loves to effect His greatest works by means tending under ordinary circumstances to produce the very opposite of what is to be done. (Christopher Wordsworth)
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Isaiah 55:8,9 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.
Isaiah 16:7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Mark 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
1 Corinthians1:25-29 The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the World to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the World, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in His presence.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
core christianity
An old poem tells of a woman who was walking through a meadow one day. As she strolled along, meditating on nature, she came upon a field of golden pumpkins. In the corner of the field stood a huge, majestic oak tree. The woman sat under the oak tree and began musing about the strange twists in nature. Why tiny acorns hung on the huge branches of the oak tree, and why huge pumpkins grew on tiny vines. She thought “Maybe God blundered a little with his creation. He should have put the small acorns on the tiny vines and the large pumpkins on the strong branches of the oak tree.”
Before long, the woman dozed off to sleep in the warmth of the late autumn sunshine. She was awakened when a tiny acorn fell from the great oak tree and bounced off her nose. Chuckling to herself, she amended her previous thinking. “Maybe God was right after all!” (Imagine if things had been done her way...it would have been the pumpkin landing on her nose…?)
In ever situation, God knows far more about the people and circumstances involved than we can ever know. He alone sees the beginning from the ending. He alone knows how to create a Master Plan that provides for the good of all those who serve Him. (christysclipart.com)
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• The most logical thing is not always God's way. He does the unusual, the supernatural, the miraculous, contrary to natural expectation.
• God doesn't make mistakes, even when they look like it to us.
• God gets some of His greatest victories out of seeming defeats!
• The Lord knows what He's doing, even if we don't know what we're doing!
• God loves to do things contrary to natural expectation, because that takes a miracle and that shows it's God, and not man!
• God's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts and He takes the weakest things to confound the mighty and the foolish things to bring to naught the wisdom of the wise, and often works in a very mysterious way the wonders of His Love to perform. (MOP)
God likes to do it differently and in many ways that to us are downright ridiculous, outlandishly funny, seemingly impossible, and outright laughable, just to show His power, that He's not bound by conventions, traditions, customs? the System, or any kind of impossibilities! It's really funny the way God runs things, especially us! (Heavenly Culture!)
When Noah built a boat on dry land and said there was going to be a flood while it had never even rained before, he was laughed at by the vast unsilent majority who were later to drown in that very same flood while he and his own family had the last laugh!
When a lowly shepherd from lonely Sinai claimed he was going to deliver six million Jewish slaves single-handed from the greedy clutches of their all-powerful Egyptian captors, Moses' own people made fun of him. But it was he who later had the fun as he led them miraculously through the Red Sea on dry ground! The people of Jericho jeered when Joshua jogged his Jews seven times around their impregnable walls, but it was really a blast on those tiny trumpets when those walls came tumblin' down. The Midianite army of thousands must have really cracked up when most of Gideon's army split and he was only left with three hundred men, but it was the Midianites turn to split when his paltry party pelted them with pottery in the middle of the night!
The mighty lords of the conquering Philistines sneered when the proverbial Jewish strong man stood blind before them as their captive, but when he pushed the pillars of their temple apart, it was his turn to snicker as he slew more of his enemies with his death than his life! The giant Goliath ridiculed the little lad with the slingshot, but when David cut loose with just one honest bit of rock, the Philistine phony fell flat his face and the children of God danced for joy! (Brother Sun)
make it personal
Jesus, I have experienced this so many times throughout my life—how Your way of doing things seems to be so contrary or different to mine, but it always turns out to be so much better as well…so much more beautiful, so much more fulfilling, and always for my ultimate good. Thank You for Your ways, Jesus. Help me always to remember and never forget that things always turn out best when I let You have Your way.
