Podcast Appearances
Split that in half, turn it over, and look on the inside.
God's already seen it, because he made it.
And so thinking like this about dog's eyes and atoms in the sun enlarges my view of God and his power and his nature and his character.
And so when I look at suffering and try and work it out, I think, can't work it out.
But how could I ever understand the mind of God?
If I can't figure out a dog's eye or an atom in the sun, how could I know the mind of God and know his purposes?
Look at the life of Joseph.
Things were going well.
Taken by his brothers, they wanted to kill him.
Dropped in a pit and taken and sold as a slave.
Then he's thrown in prison.
False accusation.
I think it was 17 years in prison.
But God was working his good will in his life.
And so we see so often in Scripture, like, all these things happening, and we realize that God has his purposes that are far beyond ours.
Who has known the mind of the Lord, scriptures say.
It's rhetorical.
His ways are infinitely above our ways.
So I do what Spurgeon said to do.
He says, faith may swim where reason may only paddle.