Bible Verse of The Day – 3-1-21

Psalm 145:17 (NKJV) 17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways, Gracious in all His works.

Sometimes God’s ways can be a bit hard for us to understand.

Sometimes they can be downright confounding to our finite human minds.

You see, over time we tend to form a mental picture of God. Not so much what He looks like, but how we expect Him to act; the things we expect to see Him do.

Sometimes the ideas we have are accurate. Other times they are far off track.

Why does this happen?

It’s all about perception.

As we learn, we develop certain perceptions of who God is. Some of those perceptions can be very accurate. But some can be very inaccurate.

This can happen for a few reasons. Many times, it’s due to things we have been taught that were incorrect.

Sometimes it’s due to incorrect interpretation of what we have read or heard.

Sometimes we may not even know why we think what we do. It just kind of happened over time.

The best way to remedy this is to get into God’s word and seek His truth. And when we do this, we have to be willing to see what God says in an objective way, with no preconceived ideas or notions.

It’s the only way to truly know what He means when He says something.

Be prepared to see and hear things that may not make sense to our human minds and our human way of thinking. Remember that God’s ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts.

Isaiah 55:9 (NKJV) 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

But in all of this, His ways are righteous and true, as stated in the scripture at the beginning of this devotional.

So, no matter what we might see that doesn’t quite fit with what we thought was true, we can always go back to His word and get the real deal from the one true source.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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