God Is Up to Something
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Are you going through something difficult right now and asking yourself, “Where is God in this? What is He doing? Can I be sure He’s doing something, or is He just sitting on standby while I walk through these tough times?”
Those are questions we’ve all wrestled with at one point or another. But when we’re tempted to believe that God isn’t working, when we start to think that just because we can’t see Him moving that means He isn’t doing anything, we must remember that God’s ways and His thoughts are so much higher than our own. In other words, what He thinks and the way He works are so far beyond our understanding that oftentimes we are totally unaware of what the Lord is doing.
Think about all of the examples we see of people in the Bible who were walking through really difficult, or even seemingly impossible, circumstances, and yet every time God was up to something. When the Israelites came to the Red Sea, surrounded by the enemy on all sides, God was up to something. When Daniel got locked in the lions’ den and faced the real threat of death, God was up to something. When Ruth and Naomi had their lives turned upside down, God was up to something.
And just like God was up to something in each of these situations, He’s up to something in your life too. So keep believing that God is going to come through. Keep trusting His ways, even when you can’t see Him working. And have faith that His will is always going to prevail.
Are you going through something difficult right now and asking yourself, “Where is God in this? What is He doing? Can I be sure He’s doing something, or is He just sitting on standby while I walk through these tough times?”
Those are questions we’ve all wrestled with at one point or another. But when we’re tempted to believe that God isn’t working, when we start to think that just because we can’t see Him moving that means He isn’t doing anything, we must remember that God’s ways and His thoughts are so much higher than our own. In other words, what He thinks and the way He works are so far beyond our understanding that oftentimes we are totally unaware of what the Lord is doing.
Think about all of the examples we see of people in the Bible who were walking through really difficult, or even seemingly impossible, circumstances, and yet every time God was up to something. When the Israelites came to the Red Sea, surrounded by the enemy on all sides, God was up to something. When Daniel got locked in the lions’ den and faced the real threat of death, God was up to something. When Ruth and Naomi had their lives turned upside down, God was up to something.
And just like God was up to something in each of these situations, He’s up to something in your life too. So keep believing that God is going to come through. Keep trusting His ways, even when you can’t see Him working. And have faith that His will is always going to prevail.
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