Trying To Understand The Ways of God - Ron Edmondson

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. Ecclesiastes 11:5 NIV

Have you ever had something in your life that you just couldn’t figure out? I know I have. There have been some situations, which have occurred to me personally or people I love that left me asking God “why”. I have witnessed friends go through trials that seemed at the time beyond God’s repair (they really weren’t) and I kept wondering how God could possibly “work all things for good”.

Then I remember this verse. I remember how the tornado that devastated our town a decade ago escaped every weatherperson’s predictions. No one knew it was coming. There was no warning, but as much physical damage was done, not one life was lost. No one could explain it.

I think about watching a child being born and witnessing the miracle of God clearly unfold before my eyes. How could this perfect child have grown so lovely within his mother’s womb? I’ll never understand it.

That’s the way it is with certain situations in life as well. How do we explain them? We can’t. How can we understand them? We can’t. What we can know is that there is a God who understands, a God who cares, and a God we can trust.

Our mission as followers of Christ is not to understand all God’s ways, because we will not be able to in this life. Our mission is to trust the God whose ways are so much higher than ours.

What is it you have a hard time understanding in life?