You would think I would learn. Wake up in the middle of the night with a thought in my head of a possible post and write it down. But no-o-o-o-o. I tell myself, “I will remember that” so rather than get up and write it down, I just go back to sleep. Now I’m wracking my brain trying to remember that “unforgettable” thought. I’ve been up for two hours and I’m still looking for it. Why do I do that to myself? Oh well…maybe I will wake up sometime in the middle of the night tonight and remember it. Someone once told me that a good practice is to have paper and pen next to my bedside to write down the random thoughts that come to mind. Maybe I ought to do that, but I really prefer sleeping the night through with no random thought in my head except, visions of sugar plums (whatever they are) dancing in my head. In all honesty, that sounds truly gross and sweet enough to put even a non-diabetic like me into a sugar coma. (I prefer ice cream myself. Chocolate. Death by chocolate. Moose tracks chocolate. Mint chocolate chip). That’s enough of that. I’m at the office and have no access to either ice cream or chocolate. 🙂
I’m rambling I know. I’m trying to randomly write hoping my mind will wake up and remember that middle-of-the-night idea. But I think I’m going to fail.
Here is something else. Trying to understand God is more often than not impossible. He even says, “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts, and my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” (Is. 55:8-9 NLT) I struggle sometimes when I know stuff and wonder why God just doesn’t intervene and do what I think ought to be done. When little children are touched and molested by a supposed loving parent; when an incompetent judge disregards testimony of experts and allows unsupervised visitation and driving rights to the alcoholic father.
Blows me away. I have been privy to situations over the years that will curl the insides of any normal person. Parents smoking joints and taking meth with their children in the room. Read the news of “tanked” parents driving with their babies in the car. How about so-called parents selling their children for sex? Are you kidding me?
I can’t wrap my head around the evil in different scenarios. And honestly, I can’t wrap my head around it being allowed to go on. God says His thoughts are not mine. He is correct in that. He is also correct that I don’t understand His ways. But He is also correct that I must trust Him in all things. So I will. Even if it is hard. And BTW: I just realized that was my random thought. 🙂
I have found over the years that if I have a thought of value, even in the night, God will bring it back to me once I’m awake and ready to start the day, Bill. Yes, there are so many things in this world that I can’t wrap my head around as they are so evil, but we have to trust that God is just and will have the last say. And the last thought.
Blessings!
I agree with that Martha. Final say and final thought.
With all of chaos and lies, the evil swirling around these days, I often have to repeat to myself, God is still in charge. I trust the Lord with all my heart and soul, God sees this and one day He will make it all right again. I truly believe that the culture has done whatever is right in their own eyes. The culture has told God we do not want You in our schools, workplace, we will pick and choose where You can show up and how. I believe that God has removed His Sovereign hand from us because of that. As christians, we have to be the light and speak the truth of God’s word, and point the culture back to God, not God to the culture.
How do I say Amen to that? Easy…AMEN (all caps). Thanks Gail.
The only way I can reconcile these things is that we live in a world that is fallen. Even with God literally walking with Adam and Eve in the garden, they were able to be corrupted. Think about that for a moment… Direct and Physical interaction with the creator of the universe and because God created us with free will… Adam and Eve failed. Humankind failed… I have failed. Thankfully, that was not the end of the story. God’s desire was not to create little cloned robots that were “programmed” to love and worship Him… God’s desire was to create a being in His image that chooses to love and worship Him. That obviously came at a cost as the ability to make that decision also can result in the decision to not, even if for a moment in the midst of deception (enter the deceiver), but God was not surprised and already had a plan before He even stated… In the beginning.
I’m so glad this is not the end of the story. I firmly believe that Ryan as I know you do. God will have His way and it will never be defeated no matter what evil says or even incompetence. There will be judgment some day and for those who abuse children, I think it is going to be worse. IMHO