When Understanding Fails, Trust Remains

“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.” Isaiah 55:8–9.

There are moments when life takes a turn we didn’t see coming, prayers feel unanswered, timelines are disrupted, and outcomes defy our expectations. In those moments, we are tempted to ask, “Why, God?”

We long for clarity. But Scripture reminds us that God’s ways are not always meant to be understood, they are meant to be trusted.

God is not random. He is sovereign. He sees the full picture when we only hold a single puzzle piece. His silence is not absence, and His delays are not denials. He is working in dimensions we cannot grasp, aligning things beyond our view.

Job, who lost everything, questioned God. But in the end, God didn’t give him all the answers, He revealed His greatness. And Job responded, “Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know” Job 42:3.

Faith does not always mean we understand God it means we trust Him anyway.

So when His ways confuse you, when His timing stretches you, or His silence unsettles you, remember: you serve a God who knows the end from the beginning. And He has never failed.

Lord, help me to trust when I don’t understand. When Your ways are hidden, remind me they are still good. Strengthen my faith to rest in who You are, even when I don’t know what You’re doing. Amen.