How
unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
Hebrews
11:33
God’s ways are topsy-turvy to the world’s
ways. A few examples: God exalts the humble, but the world exalts the proud.
God ascribes greatness, not to masters, but to servants. God is impressed, not
with noise or size or wealth, but with quiet things . . . done in secret—with
inner motives, the true heart condition. God sends away the arrogant and the
rich empty-handed, but He gathers to Himself the lowly, the broken, the
prisoner, the prostitute, the repentant. The world honors the handsome and the
gifted and the brilliant. God smiles on the crippled, the ones who can’t keep
up. All this makes the world nervous.
As Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in The Cost
of Discipleship: “And so the disciples are strangers in the world, unwelcome
guests, disturbers of the peace. No wonder the world rejects them!”
#SimpleFaith #CharlesSwindoll
Taken from Wisdom for the Way: Wise
Words for Busy People by Charles Swindoll
