"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "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

God is not like man, and that is the worst thing we do in trying to understand Him and the things He does. All things work together for His good purpose. He is not like man, that He should lie. He sees all things, He is timeless and knows the end. He knows the good purpose in the pain we experience for the moment, we do not.

Man is arrogant, trying to make God like him. We are the created, He the Creator. He does not change, we change almost every moment. Our circumstances change. Even I, in my desire to make Him known, have no control, no power over what happens to me or the people in my life. Only God does, and it's hitting me so strongly, and it makes me weep for those who don't know Him--though there is always hope.

Oh, today is my sister's birthday. She's 18. Crazy.