When God doesn't make sense

We can’t make the life around us behave.  

Don’t allow what you think that you want to get into the way of who God wants for you to be.  

Don’t ask God to do something that will violate His nature.    

God likes to put us into situations that we can’t handle.  

To hear God's voice, you have to turn down the world's volume.  

We reject the answers that we pray for because of the packaging.  It's because we don't understand it.  

Faith is not in an instant.  There will be parts that we don’t understand.  

God doesn’t think like us.  God is focused on the process that is going on in us during the process.  God is a process person.  He loves the process.  If you don’t cooperate, you extend the process.   

If you understand the why, it helps you to understand your way. Most of the time, we try to understand God, but we can’t, so we must trust.  

The secret of patience is doing something of value in the meantime.  Patience isn’t the ability to wait, but how you act when you wait.   

God has a much better plan than you have for yourself.  

Miracles happen when our willingness to trust God intersects with the will of God.  God has blessings for us on the other side of obedience.  

Allow God to work outside your knowledge.  If you have to understand first what God is doing, you have reduced God to the size of your brain.  

Life is a test because God is watching.  God is watching how we respond to life’s tests.  God watches the obscure things that we do.  God tests us with the details.   

God’s Word will guide you to what God’s best is for you. 

Excerpts from Church of the Highlands Notes.