No going to church on Easter? What was God thinking? Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Alabama has a pretty good idea. This past Sunday, just before their 10:30 a.m. Easter normally would have started, their church was struck by lightening and badly damaged in a fire. Normally at that time, over 250 eager worshippers would have been packed inside. But not this Easter. No one was inside, and no one was harmed. In a way no one would have expected, God used coronavirus cancellations to save lives.
Do you think he could be working in the same way behind the scenes in your life too? You bet! We are so often guilty of trying to play God. We are so often guilty of trying to make our lives follow our plans. Here’s what God says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. 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’s thoughts are so much higher than ours!
When you see Jesus die on the cross and rise again to save us, you realize what a good thing it is that God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts. We never could have thought up our salvation on our own! When your life doesn’t go according to your plans, thank God for his higher thoughts.
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