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Trust in the Wisdom of God

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. – Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV)

God’s nature is one of wisdom, which informs all that He does. God does not decree, ordain, work, or act without thinking, but is guided in all His works by wisdom. The wisdom of God permeates His creation, ordering, guidance, and government of all things. 

When we know God is wise and is working for our good, this leads to trust.  

God doesn’t just have wisdom, He is wisdom. Because God is wise in His decisions and decrees, He never regrets. He never says, “Oops.” He never gets caught by surprise. He never says, “I didn’t say that coming.” He never has to say, “I made a foolish mistake.” 

Consider the mind of God and the complexity of His wisdom in forming the universe and the galaxies. Think of the wisdom of God displayed in the intricacy of the human body, molecular biology, the reproductive process, the sheer physics and mathematical precision of our universe. Consider the wisdom of God exercised in the raising up of some nations, and the casting down of others. The raising up some people, and the laying low of others. 

But also consider the wisdom of God that permeates all His commands. He never commands flippantly or arbitrarily. All of God’s commands flow forth from His wisdom. 

There is great power in seeing the sovereignty of God and wisdom of God held together. To recognize that nothing in this world happens by chance or accident, nothing that happens takes place outside the determination of God, yet we know that everything that happens passes through the filter of His wisdom. 

Nothing is arbitrary. Nothing happens by chance. None of us are simply at the mercy of other people’s whims. God knows what’s best for us and always plans that which brings the greatest good to our lives.

Do you find it easy to trust and follow God’s commands? Why or why not? 

When was a time in your life where you felt like things were happening by chance? How did you eventually see those events work together for your good? 

How does it make you feel to know nothing in your life happens by mistake?