No more WHYS

Isaiah 55: 8-9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

More than often, I cannot seem to understand WHY certain things happen in my life, WHY I meet certain people, WHY things don’t seem to go my way. Then I was reminded, not to ask why, but rather to know WHO my God is. The God, in whom we worship, is one who is greater than all our whys, a God who is in control, a God who jolly well knows what He is doing and what’s best for us. This verse caused me to realize how silly I am to question a God whose ways and thoughts are far greater than mine.

I got reminded of my past, when I was not accepted into any universities. Then I cried and asked the Lord “why?” I could not understand why people who got lousier grades got in and I did not. I could not understand what God was doing in my life. I had planned going to the university after my A levels, but that was not God’s plan for my life. It was only after one year that I got accepted into SMU. Within that year of waiting, God had better plans for me to do a diploma in mass com at MDIS and most importantly, do his work. A girl out there in MDIS was waiting for someone from FCBC to bring her back and God had planned to use me. At that moment when I got rejected from 3 unis, I could not understand why. It took me a year later, to see what God had intended. Indeed his plans were far greater than mine, higher than what I had intended or planned for. In fact, it was a better plan for me!

Sometimes, I find myself planning ahead of time what I want to do, according to what the world deems best for my life, or what I feel is best. Yet God reminded me, that my best or the world’s best may not be the best after all. God wanted me to trust in him, a God who wants the best for me and who has ways that are better and greater than what I can imagine or plan for.

Have we neglected God’s best in our lives? Have we neglected Him in our plans? Is God part of our decisions or plans today? If you are feeling discouraged, lost or confused, God wants to remind you today, that He’s ways and thoughts are higher than what we have, He is one who knows best. Let us trust in our God who knows best and quit asking “WHY”.