Who Can Know God's Ways?

Who can know God's thoughts or ways? He plainly tells us in His Word that His ways are not our ways! We have to trust Him at all times and be ready for what ever comes our way with the full knowledge that He is sovereign over all things!
Is.58:8-9
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

What do you do when hard times come your way? Do you rest in the knowledge that you are covered by His blood and when you close your eyes in death, you know He is your Redeemer! Sometimes the most happy of times can end in tragedy without any warning! Be ready in Christ!!
I will relate a sad but true story to you. A young lady went to the hospital for the joyful birth of her third child. A child she lovingly held and named but will never get to mother. Later that day, she died from a blood clot! A happy occasion with a tragic end. Be ready for eternity!

What Christ and the Cross mean to the believer....
Rom.10:13 For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."


Eph.2:1-10
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-
3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved-
6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.


Titus 3:5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit


God is Creator....
Gen.1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Rom.1:18-20 

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 
20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.


God is Judge....
Rom.2:2-6

2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 
3 Do you suppose, O man--you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself--that you will escape the judgment of God? 
4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 
5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. 
6 He will render to each one according to his works:


God sent Christ, our Savior....
Rom.3:23-24

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 

24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus

Lord, I pray for us to think only what Christ has done on the Cross! He has given us the greatest gift, let us use that gift for His glory! And I SHOUT His praise! Amen