Isaiah 55:8-9 – “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."
No matter how much we have experienced Gods hand in our lives, man's character is to primarily depend on himself/ herself for counsel and any work. Few are the people who are 100% truly dependent on God, right from the start.
And then there are folks who decide their path and then pray to God to help them travel that road. They don't realize it may not be the same road that God has planned for them. Yet it is their way, their will, they choose until forced to turn back, causing much hurt, sadness and disappointment.
What we don't realize is that man's foreseeable future is limited to a moment. But God sees a lifetime and beyond.
So why is Gods way better? the Lord’s ways are the result of wise deliberation; they are proactive whereas Human action is frequently the hasty result of passion, or fear, is reactive and is followed by regret and alteration; but nothing can take the Almighty by surprise or happen otherwise than he has foreseen. Beings act according to their nature: when those natures change, their conduct varies also; but Gods nature does not change. He is the creator: no external forces can change His way. Whereas anything we do according to our own will has a force majeure clause attached.
Man’s ways are variable, but God’s ways are everlasting.
We need to stop demonstrating to God that it's my life and my decisions and my way. Faith and trust are an outcome of this simple, yet difficult truth.
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