Deep Things!

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and decisions and how unfathomable and untraceable are His ways! ROMANS 11:33 AMP

For a man to pen down the words of today's extract, he must have experienced another dimension of God which he never had before. Paul himself was the beneficiary of today's mystery, as he met Christ on the way to arresting and persecuting all who followed the same Christ. He recognized this grace upon his own life, and always lived in full consciousness and appreciation of this grace. When I look at my own life too, I see this grace evident upon my life.

Everyday, you realize there was nothing you could have given to deserve the grace and mercy that you enjoy today. There is nothing that should qualify you for the favour you claim. There are people who seem 'bigger and better' than you, yet have gone to the great beyond. You may not have everything you need now, but when you look at your life critically, you realize you do have much more than a great percentage of the world's population does not have.

Knowing God and understanding how he works is a lifelong discovery. You do not make a conclusion about God based on only one experience of Him. His decisions are taken in light of eternity; we are the ones who want everything today. His ways and thoughts are higher than ours, and whatever he does or allows has been carefully arranged to bring us to His own expected end, not ours.

I must therefore trust God that he knows what he is doing. Whatever my today looks like has nothing to do with what God has planned for me. I keep my eyes on the eternal prize, being sure that God will bring me home, no matter what he allows me to pass through. His time of favour is here.