I was thinking today… about logic. Some of us tend to think with the logical side of our minds before considering the feeling/heart side of our minds. Others first think with their heart/feelings before the logical. Some people struggle in their walk with Jesus because they think God is not logical. They can’t understand or make sense of certain things in the bible.
We need to realize that just because we can’t understand God’s ways with our limited minds, does not mean that they aren’t true or didn’t happen or that God isn’t logical. We don’t have the mind of God. I personally don’t understand the exact workings of a car or electricity and many other things! But they work and are logical. We need to be okay with not having all of the answers.
God creates order out of chaos and darkness. Look at the earth, the galaxies, how our bodies work, nature, and I could go on and on. They are all very orderly and just perfectly right in order to survive. Logic at its best! Then, look at some of the bible accounts – Jonah and the whale, Noah’s ark, water to wine, healings, and more that WE can’t logically figure out, however, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t logical to GOD. I would encourage all of us to keep those things in mind.
God is God and we are not. We cannot understand all that He does, we don’t have the full picture. When I look at the world and creation, a baby growing in its mother’s womb, a blade of grass, a towering tree – everything! It is logical to believe in God and God is logical.
(Isaiah 55:8-9) “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.”
(Romans 1:20) For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
(Numbers 23:19) “God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?”
To God be the Glory,
Lynn Manucci Warrick
