Today is my 8th anniversary of morning blogs with you all. Each morning, I have my Bible, my coffee and my quiet time with you.
What a pleasure it has been to share God’s heart and my thoughts with you most every morning of the past eight years! There is no better way for me to celebrate than to once again remind you of the power of God’s love and His thoughts.
Have you ever heard someone quote “‘God’s way are not our ways. His ways are higher than ours’ and so we can’t really know why God does something”?
I have. In fact, I have probably been guilty of saying that more than once. But just because we say it doesn’t make it true. Yes, God’s ways are higher than ours but that doesn’t mean we can’t understand God or know His ways.
The Bible is our loving Father communicating with us so that we can know His ways. He gave his plan to Moses, the prophets and spoke His plan to Jesus, who was the fulfillment of that plan.
He gave his plan to Paul who penned over half the New Testament so that we would continue to have the direction we needed.
Then He placed His Spirit within us when we were born again so we could have greater understanding of His ways.
“None of the rulers of this world understood this wisdom. If they had understood it, they would not have killed our great and glorious Lord on a cross. 9 But as the Scriptures say,
‘No one has ever seen, no one has ever heard, no one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.’
10 But God has shown us these things through the Spirit. The Spirit knows all things. The Spirit even knows the deep secrets of God. 11 It is like this: No one knows the thoughts that another person has. Only the person’s spirit that lives inside knows those thoughts. It is the same with God. No one knows God’s thoughts except God’s Spirit. 12 We received the Spirit that is from God, not the spirit of the world. We received God’s Spirit so that we can know all that God has given us.
13 When we say this, we don’t use words taught to us by human wisdom. We use words taught to us by the Spirit. We use the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. 14 People who do not have God’s Spirit do not accept the things that come from his Spirit. They think these things are foolish. They cannot understand them, because they can only be understood with the Spirit’s help. 15 We who have the Spirit are able to make judgments about all these things. But anyone without the Spirit is not able to make proper judgments about us.
16 As the Scriptures say, ‘Who can know what is on the Lord’s mind? Who is able to give him advice?’
But we have been given Christ’s way of thinking.” I Corinthians 2:8-16 ERV
If you’re having difficulty understanding the things of God, ask the Holy Spirit who lives within you – He’ll be more than glad to help!