He parted the Red Sea because it fit His plan for Israel (Exodus 14:21 Psalm 66:6). His ways are not merely different from ours, they are higher. Instead, God left us a clue in the word higher. If we try to understand God’s ways from earth looking up, we won’t find many answers. That’s what we must do with God when His ways are beyond our comprehension. He rests on his mother in complete humility and trust in her superior wisdom and provision. But he trusts her and loves her because he knows she loves him. She may correct him, take him to the doctor for vaccinations, and tell him “no” when he wants something very much. A just-weaned child does not understand everything his mother does. But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother like a weaned child I am content” (verses 1–2). The key to finding peace with ways that we don’t understand is in Psalm 131: “My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. So we beat on heaven’s door with our demand for answers, and no answer comes but this one: “My ways are higher than your ways.” We question God’s ways when young people die, when tragedies strike righteous people, when the wicked prosper (see Psalm 73). His ways are higher than our ways, and His actions often do not make sense to our earth-bound minds. How can we fully trust a God we don’t understand? How can we have faith when God’s ways seem even cruel at times? When we try to comprehend God’s ways, we can become frustrated. The human heart is filled with questions for God: “Why?” “When?” “How?” We often wrestle with faith because of those questions. God’s thoughts and His ways don’t always make sense to us, but we can rest in the knowledge that He is always good, and, therefore, everything He does is good (Psalm 13:6 100:5). The psalmist exclaimed, “How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!” (Psalm 139:17). As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” God’s infinite thoughts are far greater than our limited ability to comprehend them. Isaiah 55:8–9 says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.
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