Higher than Ours

Ephesians 1 starting in verse 3 outlines how God has already blessed us through Christ. Verse 4 says that he chose us before the creation of the world. So God blessed us and mapped out a plan for our lives before He did anything else! Yet so often we toil and wrestle over what to do and what purpose He has for us. Isaiah 55:9 reminds us that His ways are higher than ours: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts higher than your thoughts”. The verse right before that says that our thoughts and ways are not God’s thoughts and ways. It makes sense, then, that God would be able to see and do things for us that we cannot do for ourselves. It’s frustrating to not be able to see how something is going to work out or work through a disappointment, but God sees things that we don’t. He mapped out the blessings for our lives before He did anything else! Even though we can’t always see His ways or know His thoughts, we can live in His blessings by spending time with Him and submitting to His will even when it seems like the opposite of what we want. We will survive if we try to figure out what is going on or how to fix something. We will thrive when we draw close to Him and let His thoughts and ways become our own!