April 16 – Truth Over All Reasoning

“Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.  Isaiah 46:10 (NLT)

We believe the promises we read and discuss here each day to be true.  Yet we encounter resistance when we tell others what the Bible says.  There are many reasons given because even those who believe might actually think they know better than God.  They really don’t understand, and say “A truly loving God would never do such a thing.” Our limited knowledge simply cannot accept concepts of some truths that conflict with our reason. Instead, we decide that if we can’t reason it to be true, we can’t accept it as truth. These actually consider their reasoning to be above God’s Word.  Two promises today tell us otherwise.  First, God promises that only He is in control of everything in the world. We refer to this with the word sovereignty.  The second promise is that whatever God plans will always come to pass without fail.  None can stay His hand or say to Him, ‘What have you done?’ or ‘How can you do that?’  God answers only to Himself and never to our inadequate reasoning.  No one, in anyway, can win an argument with God about His ‘fairness’ or ‘justice’ and force God to change His plan.

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