God's Thoughts

Many of us have fallen into the trap of always trying to figure everything out. Instead of casting our care upon the Lord, we go through life carrying every bit of it. When we are trying to figure everything out, we are exalting our reasoning above God's thoughts and plans for our life as we are placing our ways higher than His ways. "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." 2 Corinthians 10:5. We need to always cast our cares to Christ. When we do that, we will stop trying to figure everything out and learn to cast our care upon the Lord and enter into His rest. "Now we who have believed enter that rest..." Hebrews 4:3. If we are not resting, then we are not really believing and trusting, because the fruit of belief and trust is rest. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding..." Proverbs 3:5. In other words, we are told, 'Trust God and don't try to figure things out on the basis of what you see.' NOT 'Trust God while you are trying to figure everything out.' We may trust God with our mouths but do our minds reflect that? God never called us to figure everything out, He asked us to seek Him then obey what He tells us to do. He will bring everything to pass in accordance with His will and plan. When we worry, we lose our peace, and when we try to figure everything out, we fall into confusion. Staying in peace is abiding under the shadow of the Almighty. Confusion is the consequence of reasoning with our own understanding when we should be trusting in the Lord with all our heart to make way for us according to His plan. When we trust that His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, we can stop confusion before it even starts.