WHY GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.

What is being mysterious?

Being mysterious can be defined as being difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify by another person.

To seek to understand why God works in mysterious ways is on the one hand to attempt to describe who God is (but which really can't be). But it is also a way to affirm that God is His own (Self existing). He works in ways understood and explainable by and to Him alone. God is answerable to none. For He is what He is (I AM WHAT I AM) (Exodus 3:14).

And if it so is (just as it is) that God is His own, then we are directly affirming that He is unique from any and everything ever to have been or to ever be. For nothing else apart from God that is its own. Everything belongs somewhere except God. He is unique in the most sense that He alone is:

• Omnipotent (Psalm 115:3), (Jeremiah 32:17), (Matthew 19:26), (Romans 11:36), (Ephesians 1:11), (Hebrews 1:3), (Mark 14:36)

• Omnipresent (1Kings 8:27), (Job 11:7-9), (Psalm 90:1-2, 139:7-10), (Jeremiah 23:23-24)

• Omniscient (Psalm 147:5), (Ezekiel 11:5), (Acts 15:18), (Romans 2:16, 11:33), (1 John 3:20), (Hebrews 4:13)

• Eternity (Exodus 3:14), (Psalms 102:12), (Hebrews 13:8).   

• Mercy (Psalm 6:4), (Hebrews 4:16), (Romans 9:23,24), (Ephesians 2:4), (Titus 3:5), (1Peter 1:3)

• Goodness (Exodus 34:6-7), (Psalms 25:8), (James 1:17)    

• Grace  (Psalm 145:17), (Romans 1:5, 3:24, 5:15, 20), (Ephesians 4:7), (Hebrews 4:16).  

• Holiness (Exodus 3:5-6), (1Samuel 2:2), (Psalm 99:2-3), (Isaiah 6:3), (Revelation 4:8).

• Immanence (Jeremiah 23:23-24), (Haggai 2:5), (Acts 17:27-28).    

• Righteousness (Genesis 18:25), (Psalm 19:7-9, 145:17), (Jeremiah 9:24)

• Immutability (Malachi 3:6)    

• Self-Existence (Exodus 3:14), (Psalm 90:2), (John 1:1-5, 5:26), (Colossians 1:15-17)

• Justice (Genesis 18:25), (Exodus 34:6-7), (Nehemiah 9:32-33), (Psalm 99:4), (Romans 9:14-33), (Romans 1:32), (1Peter 1:17)     

• Sovereignty (Genesis 14:19), (Exodus 18:11), (Psalm 115:3), (Matthew 10:29), (Romans 9:15), (Ephesians 1:11), (1Peter 3:17)

• Love (Deuteronomy 7:7-8), (John 14:31), (Romans 5:5, 8), (Romans 8:35, 39), (1John 4:8,16)    

• Transcendence (Isaiah 55:8-9, 57:15), (Psalm 113:5-6), (John 8:23)

All these attributes are uniquely exclusive to God. For no other being can possess them. And true it is that if we have a description the manner of each of the above, then so it is that it is used to describe someone whose nature can't be understood in the human setting (for the case of the doubters).

God is never predictable. He is not to be imaginable in the human sense. To seek therefore to understand every bit of God in the human setting is a very grave mistake.

God is Spirit (John 4:22-25). And upon this, we will never find God in physics or chemistry. God is not an object that can be seen in the human setting. He is not to be found in space. But since He is Spirit, then He can be found in the Spirit. There are some seemingly simple steps to take to get in the Spirit where we can find God, but that is another topic all together.

We can only look to God for answers, yet we can't dictate how and what those answers should be (Isaiah 45:5-6), (1Kings 8:60), (Psalms 83:18), (Deuteronomy 4:35), (Psalms 86:10), (Exodus 8:10), (John 1:3), (Ephesians 4:6), (Isaiah 43:10-11), (Psalms 8:1-3).

Simple steps how to know God.

The case of Father and child

We are of and from God. If He is not, we can't be. That is that we are children. Yet being child is two way. For to be a child is a product of a willing father and a willing someone (child). If I recognize you as my child, it so is that you recognize me as father. And upon this, so it is that one can be father and son out of both: biological means and the will to be so. But being father or son simply by relationship and not by fellowship can be an incomplete thesis.

What is it then? Is it about relationship or fellowship? The closeness between the two will dictate if it is simply relationship or fellowship. For being in fellowship is closer than being in relationship. A child who is but only by relationship enjoys certain privileges, but one who is in fellowship with the father enjoys pretty more.

If a child denies I am father or his father for that matter, even if it is undeniable that I am (rather biologically), what closeness with that child will there be? For in such a situation, what remains thereof is the fact that I am the biological father, but someone is not willing to be child albeit he can't deny I am the father.

Yet the opposite is true that the father as well can deny he is. But God has not denied He is our Father. It is rather the children who are denying and disputing God is Father. What is the end game of all this? The end game is that the condition of denial by father of the son and by son of the father will miserably and terribly keep them apart. But I repeat yet again, God has not denied He is our Father, we (people) rather deny being His children.

We therefore have missed out on coming to terms with our God because just as a child would deny to recognize their parents, we too as humans have refused to submit to the excellence, supremacy, uniqueness, Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence of God.

Despite our small and limited brains and energies, we seek to be at par with the Almighty God. We go on to question Him as to why He does things the way He chooses to. It is as if we seek that He should let us know of every bit of Him and what and how He works. Scripture asks if the clay can ask the potter why it is made a certain way (Isaiah 45:9), (Romans 9:20-21).

We all have witnessed all proof that God is unique (Isaiah 55:8-9). But we seek to know and understand His thoughts and ways, yet we are only doing so so that we can create ground and find ways to challenge Him. We are surely non existent if we seek to challenge God. But if we seek to obey and love Him, He surely presents Himself to us with love, grace, and mercy. Even what looks to be mysterious to us will begin to digest well in us.

 

Scripture calls us worms (Isaiah 14:14). This is not in the very sense that we are worms, but in the sense that if we seek to challenge God, then we are worms in measure with God. For seeking to challenge God is simply a losing game and self destructive.

A president, or a king controls a territory and in that sense, he wields respect from subjects and non subjects. God is God of Heavens and Earth and all that is wherever!

The Bible gives a chronology of a few of the ways in which God has worked in mysterious ways. This has been evidenced in some of the following ways;

• Battle

• Provision

• Protection

Battle

The God of Israel has always defended His in ways never evidenced anywhere else. Every time God's people stand well with Him, when they are attacked, He has showed up to defend them in ways never understandable to the humans.

When the Moabites and the Ammonites attacked Judah, the children of Judah did not know how to fight back because they had been dwarfed by the attackers (2Chronicles 20).  And when the Spirit of God came upon Jahaziel, He told them only to organize themselves into a choir and sing (2Chronicles 20:14).

They did organize themselves into a choir to sing to the Lord, and as they sang, the attackers turned against each other and began to fight each other. They (the attackers) were defeated just like that!!!???

Provision

God is not limited like we humans are. We all know where from we get food and water, not so? But God is not limited by anything. For out of nothing He makes and provides something. He provided manna and water to the Israelites out of the impossible (Exodus 16), (Exodus 17).

When the Hebrews wanted meat, God provided quails from the sea (Exodus 16:13), (Numbers 11:31). Mark you, quails being brought from the sea, not fish. We all know that we get fish from the sea. But these were quails which aren't known to be any aquatic!!! For if it were fish, it would have been easily  understandable...!!!

When they were thirsty, God provided water for them two times. One time He turned unpalatable water into clean drinkable water by the stroke of Moses' rod.  Another time, Moses struck the rock and water gushed out for the people to drink (Exodus 17:6). God also commanded Moses to speak to the rock so it could give water (Numbers 20:8-11) (albeit Moses struck the rock against God's will).

Protection

God protected the Israelites from the curses of Balaam orchestrated by Balak (Numbers 22:1-35). He did this by making a donkey speak the language of the humans (Numbers 22:21-39). There is no way a human can explain this except we should only say; the Lord is God Almighty. Amen.

Many other wonders are evidenced in the Bible, yet there is no enough space to mention every bit. But if we read the Bible, it is all clearer. Yet even when we choose to simply focus on ourselves, there is all evidence of God's wonder working in us.

Many of us would still go on to limit themselves to only what is possible for them to see and do. We can't deny them their choice, but they can realize how much is beyond what they know and can handle. THE LORD IS GOD. Amen