⁸ “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.
    “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
⁹ 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.

Isaiah 55:8-9

Dear God, these are actually the two verses that precede the Old Testament reading of the day, but they are the ones that struck me this morning. I’m so small. I have zero vision of what the next second hold, much less a view of what you are doing in the world. I get so wrapped around the axle when it comes to world events or even things happening with friends and loved ones, but you see everything in a way that I don’t.

I go back to World War II and Hitler. There were people who tried to assassinate him, but would his assassination have just helped the Germans to fight longer? Was it better that he survived. People try to figure out why this one dies or this one lives. Why some suffer in war and some live blissfully peaceful lives. Why this person’s child struggles while another person’s thrives. But at the end of the day, we have zero vision (as I said before) for what you are and aren’t doing in the world. And it’s not for me to know. You have me on a need-to-know basis, and I very rarely need to know.

Father, I give you my loyalty and my worship. I don’t know where all this is going or how it will all work out. But lead me to peace that passes understanding. A peace beyond all doubt.

I pray this in Jesus and with your Holy Spirit,

Amen