He Has You

When God doesn’t make sense, that is when our faith is tested. We have to learn to trust God even though we do not understand Him. The testing is when what He is doing does not align with what we think He should do from our perspective.

God’s purposes for you won’t always make sense to you so long as you’re trying to understand them from your own perspective. “‘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’” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV).

God may be allowing something bad or not doing something good in our lives. But we have to learn to trust Him even when He does not make sense. If we can learn to trust God when He does not make sense, then our faith will grow and become stronger.

Trusting God is not something that only happens when He does everything according to our plans. It is trusting Him when He does everything according to His plans, whether it makes sense to us or not.

When it doesn’t make any sense, that is where faith begins. Man’s wisdom is never the path to God’s glorious plans. “These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches…” (1 Corinthians 2:13 NKJV).

When God doesn’t make sense, this is where true faith rests, because it takes no faith to believe in a God who is doing everything you ask Him to do. It takes faith when He does not answer you the way you want, or when He does not work the way you think He should.

Whenever God does not make sense, that becomes an opportunity for us to grow, to learn, and to become all that He wants us to be. He will use the very things that do not make sense to us as a way to help our faith grow.

What He does, He is always doing with an eternal perspective. He is not working only within what makes sense to us in the moment, within our finite understanding, within this short life we live. He is working according to the long-term eternal plan He has for us.

So long as your mind is founded on the temporal, the eternal will make no sense to you at all. “Trust Yahweh always, because Yah, Yahweh alone, is an everlasting rock” (Isaiah 26:4 NOG).

We often think as we grow in our faith that God will do more in alignment with what we think should be done. We think that the saint who is walking closer to God will somehow be treated better by God, and that their life will become easier. But often the opposite is true.

It may not make sense to you, but God is often hardest on those who are closest to Him. He expects more of them, and He wants to shape more in them. And oftentimes, it is through pain and tribulation that He changes His children the most.

We think that if God made our lives easier, we could do more for Him. It makes sense to us, in our human way of thinking, that He opens doors, give us smooth paths, and make it easy for us to serve Him. But God operates at a higher level than we can understand.

If we really want to serve God on a higher level, we have to do it with greater faith. And it takes greater faith when things are very difficult, and He does not make them easy. He is shaping us and teaching us and growing us through difficult times.

In the midst of all that is going on in our lives, when it is not as easy as we thought it would be, and He seems to be making it harder and harder, that is often how God is growing us so that we can serve Him on a higher level.

Your trust in God must be at its highest when your understanding of what He is doing is at its lowest. “Even if God kills me, I will still trust him…” (Job 13:15 EASY).

God does not have to explain Himself to you, but someday perhaps He will when you get to heaven. For now, you just have to learn how to trust Him no matter what is going on. Pain has a loud voice so don’t miss out on what He is trying to tell you.

It’s more important that you trust the Lord in your circumstances than you understand why He allowed them. “Those who suffer because that is God’s will for them must entrust themselves to a faithful creator and continue to do what is good” (1 Peter 4:19 NOG).

There is a verse that says that we are supposed to thank Him in all circumstances. When we read that verse, we immediately think of the good circumstances, where God is healing us from some injury or disease or giving us a financial blessing. But the real test is when we can thank God in the midst of our suffering, knowing that He is only going to allow that which is going to help us. God is a good God.

Until you can thank God even in the bad times, your love for Him is only conditional on your circumstances. “Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18 NLT).

When you learn to love God and trust God when He does not make sense, you will live a life of peace and tranquility. He will guard your heart. You will understand the verse that says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but make your requests known to Him.” And no matter how He answers those requests, you can come to Him with thanksgiving for what He is going to do, because He is only going to do what is right, what is best, and what is good for you from an eternal perspective.

Where faith grows, anxiety subsides. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God” (Philippians 4:6 NKJV).

Now, you may get sick, you may not get healed, and you may die. But gosh, if you die, you are going to go to heaven and be with Him. It does not make sense that He would let you die, but it would make even less sense for Him to let you live forever on this planet filled with evil. No, He has a bigger plan, and it makes sense to Him even if you do not understand it.

Everything happens for a reason, whether God reveals it to you or not. “And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose” (Romans 8:28 AMP).

So, learn to love Him and trust Him and say, “God, I do not know what You are doing.” It’s okay to be honest with Him. Tell Him, “God, You do not make any sense at all, but I trust You. I know You. I know You are a good God, a loving God, a merciful God, and a gracious God.” You can always cast your cares and anxieties on Him, because He loves you and He cares for you.

Blessings to you always,

Paul Balius