Yesterday I wrote that our God is not exactly predictable. In many ways that is not true, but in certain ways that is true.
Our God is absolutely predictable in His love, His holiness, His attributes. He is predictable in the fact that He never changes. He is Holy, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent. He will never be less, nor more, than His absolute perfection.
But God is unpredictable in that we cannot put Him in a box. He does not think as we do, and many times when we expect Him to move one way, He moves a different way. His ways are higher than ours.
“For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” [Isaiah 55:5 HCSB]
What God does will always be in line with His Holy Character. But the “way” that He does it is often different than He has done before.
“Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.” [Isaiah 43:19 HCSB]
Our Father knows the end from the beginning. He knows if the things we ask from Him will benefit us or harm us, and He will always act for our good even if we cannot see that truth (or appreciate it) at the time. Amen.