I don’t get it and won’t in a thousand years
I can’t place God. His ways are beyond
My head. The more I try to peg Him
In my brain, define Him on my terms
The more I’m confused and lost.
Today, I won’t try to fix how He works
To interpret His plans or explain His ways.
Today, I will follow – one step at a time
One day to the other and I know I’ll be fine
Because that is all He asks.

Food For Thought: How many times have we tried to wrap God round our little heads and failed? Does that mean we stopped right there, after the first failed attempt? Not me though. I am always trying to understand God. I think that’s the root of my passion for engineering; if you can find a formula around it, then you can tell the results when conditions change. If you can pin the pattern, you can predict where it is headed and where it will end. In engineering, we don’t design for surprises. Every detail must be understood and accommodations made for errors so that whenever and however the apple falls, it won’t be far from our tree. But God is way beyond our designs, calculations and conclusions. His ways baffle our well informed assumptions and trounce our well researched deductions. We may assume a formula based on history but God’s ways won’t be compliant to our estimated results. We may locate and track the trend but our prediction will still be baffling in comparison to reality. God’s ways are not our ways: it’s that simple and yet so complicated to human minds. We can’t place God no matter how much we try. He is the Creator, we are the created: does that make sense enough now?

Scripture: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3: 5.

Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to reach beyond my natural tendencies to understand and explain everyone and everything happening around me, to love and accept You just as You are, and serve You just as I ought, amen.