I’m really glad I’m not God.
I’m at a place right now where there are so many variables, known and unknown, that play on each other, affect each other, and could end up in an endless number of scenarios. When I stop and try to figure it all out, to even begin to decipher all the causes and effects, my mind ends up in a boggled, overwhelmed mess.
My human intellect was never meant to make all the dots connect. In fact, all I can fathom is an endless number of random dots that seem to have no connection or possibly every connection. It’s too much to take in.
Think of a beautiful starry night. Clear and dark except for the infinite number of stars scattered across it. There doesn’t seem to be any pattern or purpose to their order or placement. They are beautiful but not connected. At least to the untrained eye.
But then someone comes along and shows you that there ARE patterns. Placement of certain stars that create a picture. The Big Dipper. The Little Dipper. Cassiopeia. Draco. Orion. The list goes on and on. Suddenly, you begin to see the formations and to recognize their shapes when you look at the stars. The “random” morphs into pictures that your eyes can make some kind of sense of. But it took a trained eye to show you what to look for. You trusted an expert and as a result your vision began to change. The way you looked at the sky would never be the same.
God created that sky, those formations. He also created you and me and intimately knows the details of our lives and the dots that make up what we can see now and what is yet to come. Nothing is random to Him. There is nothing that He missed along the way. There is always method in His “madness”.
As we look to Him, trusting Him and asking Him for His expertise, He stands with us and begins to show us the “constellations” of His plans. We don’t have to understand HOW it all works together for good, just that it WILL. It isn’t our job to connect all the dots. It’s His. And when He does, we get to see the formation that occurred and wonder at its beauty.
Romans 8:28 – And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Psalm 139:1-6 – You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
