God's Dumb Ways?

Sometimes God’s plans look a little…dumb. At least they don’t always make sense to us. As we look at the people He selected, to the places He took them, to the way He would save us—well, we wouldn’t do that! But God’s okay with our inability to comprehend His ways and ideas. Just as Isaiah 55:8-9 says, "'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,' says 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.'"

In fact, He may enjoy showing up in ways we never would have expected; as Habakkuk discovered in Habakkuk 1:5, "Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you."

We never would believe that the weakest, the smallest, the poorest, the least sophisticated would have what it takes to be the kind of people God would use to bring about an eternal change to the world, but He does. From Gideon to David, or Thomas to Zacchaeus, God has picked people to reveal His power and His nature.

1 Corinthians 1:18-21, "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.' Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe…."

Don’t ever mistake the silence of God on an issue that you think He should step up and take care of as a sign that He doesn’t exist or doesn’t care. But in those moments of silence, reflect on what many other people we read about in scriptures had to learn how to do: "Be still and know that I am God!" (Psalms 46:10).

Hebrews 11:6, "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."