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The Mirror of the Word and other works by C.E. White can be purchased on her website, cewhitebooks.com or on Amazon
“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
It’s comforting to remind ourselves that the Lord knows far more and far better than we do when things don’t work out the way we hoped or prayed. The Lord sees and knows all the tiny steps each of our lives need to take in order to create the tapestry of the world from the beginning of time until the end.
It’s a tapestry that takes all the bad and brokenness our sin created—the dark threads of sickness, sorrow, evil, pain, and death—and weaves them into a beautiful picture of hope and redemption.
For those of us inside of time, it’s like seeing the tapestry from the back. It’s all knots and tangles and in pieces that don’t look like anything; we can’t see the pattern. But God, on the other side, omniscient and outside of time, takes those dark threads and turns them into triumphant depth and outlines of the people he is shaping us to be.
Because sin entered the world, the world is broken, and evil is possible (Romans 5:12). In that brokenness, we hurt one another. But because God is good and loves us, he’s promised that he can and will reshape all of those hurts and transform them into good for those who love him (Romans 8:28).
The ultimate healing is coming in our forever life, but in the meantime, we can trust that our sufferings are worked to good purpose. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, and his ways are higher than our ways.
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The Mirror of the Word and other works by C.E. White can be purchased on her website, cewhitebooks.com or on Amazon
“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
It’s comforting to remind ourselves that the Lord knows far more and far better than we do when things don’t work out the way we hoped or prayed. The Lord sees and knows all the tiny steps each of our lives need to take in order to create the tapestry of the world from the beginning of time until the end.
It’s a tapestry that takes all the bad and brokenness our sin created—the dark threads of sickness, sorrow, evil, pain, and death—and weaves them into a beautiful picture of hope and redemption.
For those of us inside of time, it’s like seeing the tapestry from the back. It’s all knots and tangles and in pieces that don’t look like anything; we can’t see the pattern. But God, on the other side, omniscient and outside of time, takes those dark threads and turns them into triumphant depth and outlines of the people he is shaping us to be.
Because sin entered the world, the world is broken, and evil is possible (Romans 5:12). In that brokenness, we hurt one another. But because God is good and loves us, he’s promised that he can and will reshape all of those hurts and transform them into good for those who love him (Romans 8:28).
The ultimate healing is coming in our forever life, but in the meantime, we can trust that our sufferings are worked to good purpose. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, and his ways are higher than our ways.
The post JUNE 2-Trust the Tangle appeared first on C. E. White.