“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” [This is] the Lord’s declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”—Isaiah 55:8–9
The ways of the Lord are difficult to fathom. When God calls you to a mission He shows you a picture of the Finished product, but the “blue print of the mission”, He reserves for when you are spiritually ready to Launch out. After He has prepared you and see that you are mature to deal spiritually with the matters concerning the mission and able to handle the physical manifestation of the obstacles on the road to mission accomplished, then God will begin to reveal the details of the Assignment. The Lord is so intricate and loves unique variations otherwise, He would not bother to create the human with DNA specific to every person that he created.
Let us analyse man, the physical human being. The general physiology of a human person is one head, two eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, two hands, two legs, breasts, navel, hands with finger, legs with toes, hair on the head, bum with a dividing line. The male and the female species of the human being is differentiated with definitive organs which are instantly identifiable. I call this the “human prototype”. Anything different from this prototype is considered a malformation or as we know it a disability, because it does not confirm with the human physiology as we have come to know it.
The Awesomeness of our God is a mistery/fact that science is still unable to discover or unravel, and the “intelligent mind” outside of God will continue to grapple with this quest, until eternity is established. It is simply that God’s ways are different from our ways. God could have after creating Adam simply cloned him, but not my father the King of kings and the Lord of all creation, He decided to create the woman from the rib taken from Adam’s, after He caused a “deep sleep” to come upon Him. And for confirmation, Adam instantly acknowledged the woman as ” the bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh” when God presented the woman as he woke from his deep sleep.
Every human being created as many as there are, past present and the future, each one has features unique to them. No individual is a xerox copy of another, to the minuscule details such as the strands of hair or the finger print; you do not even want to begin with the inside of the human being. God created every person different although with a basic prototype but the beauty of His creation is, as our faces are different so are our purposes, our calling, our destiny, mission assignment for which He created us. ” He created us for His specific pleasure”, – something, a purpose that pleases Him – “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created”- Revelation 4:11. God in His nature does not create anything in a void. He does not speak unless He means for it to be accomplished for his benefit- His GLORY to be established.
Now let us go back to trying to understand the ways of God with regards to our individual Assignment here on earth. From the above analogy we have established the fact that God created every man uniquely and such our callings are unique to us alone. Most importantly how He brings that mission into being is totally outside of man’s remit. He alone knows the details of the assignment and when He has completed the ground work in you, only then does He begin to unfold the red sea, the wilderness, the oppositions, the rejections, the hills and the valleys, the river Jordans. But you know what, He already knows and has equipped you with the capacity to deal with every situation that arises.
Let us call into remembrance Job’s experience in the “deep end” – (God said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job). He knew Job was a man after His heart and that Job will not fail the test. So also He dealt with Abraham when God requested that Abraham gave as sacrifice his son Isaac in whom all the promise of ” father of many nations hung”.
God works with you at whatever level at which you sign up for the mission, but will process you until you are fully ready to read the manuscript of the assignment. At this point, you are already convinced beyond a doubt, that He who started a good thing is able to complete it if you just trust Him. Moreover, you have now come too far to go back and failure is not an option. In Matthew 16:24-25 Jesus said unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it”.
That for me says it all! In v23 Jesus rebuked Peter very harshly when in his enthusiasm, unknowingly wanted to alter Gods plan of the Cross – ” Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men”. That must have been a rude shock for Peter, being addressed as satan. ” For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?. So in obedience and acting in the faith of God as an Onward Christian soldier, you march on, taking orders from the Master; whose blue print when followed, despite the wilderness experience of trials and tribulations you are able to conquer and yield to the Cross by the Grace of God predestined before the foundations of the earth.
You know there is a prize awaiting you at the end of the mission “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works” – Matthew 16:27 .
Our Lord Jesus made it a point to prepare His disciples to beware of the perilous times ahead in Matthew24:4-16 – “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Beloved, I strongly believe we are in those times predicted, before Jesus returns in all His Glory. I pray that you walk in the Will of God and will be ready when the Trumpet sounds.
Blessings