Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Mystery

Ecclesiastes 11:4 in several different versions.

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

As you do not know what is the way of the wind, Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

But I like the interpretive version from the New Living Translation,

God's ways are as hard to discern as the pathways of the wind, and as mysterious as a tiny baby being formed in a mother's womb.

This is a truth we must come firmly to grips with. He is great and we are small, and we won't always know or understand what He is doing.

Thats where faith comes in.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding... Proverbs 3

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