Are you in a place where you are second-guessing God?

How often we go to the Creator and Sustainer of Life and ask, “Why now?” “Why this?” “Why me?”

And His answer reminds us of Who is in control:

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,” declares 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 55:8-9).

God knows what He is doing — in your life and mine. He has a reason far above our own because He is God and we are not. And we are asked to simply trust:

• that He is a God who “causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).
• that “there is an appointed time for everything” (Ecclesiastes 3:1) and that means He didn’t get the timing wrong in the slightest.
• that “His works are perfect….” (Deuteronomy 32:4) and He is a God who never makes mistakes, regardless of what we might think.
• that He is a God who neither slumbers, nor sleeps (Psalm 121:3-4), meaning nothing takes Him by surprise.

Can you pray this with me this morning?

Lord, I will trust You even when it seems like my world is turning upside down. I know You are in  control and – because You are loving and good — You wouldn’t have things any other way.

(From God’s Whispers to a Woman’s Heart. Start your day listening for His whispers.)