God’s Way of Doing Things (Episode 28)

To properly relate to God, we must have some understanding of His ways. The more we understand them, the better we can relate to Him. In this episode, Frank King focuses on God’s way of doing things.

Some Christians are naïve in their approach to God because they are ignorant of His ways. The way they think is not compatible with how God operates. But one thing that is clear in the Scriptures is that God does not tailor His ways to accommodate our ignorance or misconceptions.

Are you currently waiting on the Lord to fulfill a promise to you? You pray and look and wait, but you don’t see anything happening. Well, perhaps; just perhaps; God is fulfilling His promise to you. But He is doing it in such a way you cannot even imagine.

Our ignorance of God’s way of doing things can breed frustration. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts,” He says (Isaiah 55:9, KJV). That’s why He has given us the Bible so we can learn His ways.

Nothing Is Too Hard for God

When the angel appeared to Abraham to announce that God would bless Sarah with a child, Sarah laughed. This was understandable. At this time, she was 89 years old and had been born barren.

The angel heard it when Sarah laughed. He asked Abraham why did Sarah laugh. “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” the angel asked (Genesis 18:14). It was a rhetorical question. Nothing is too hard for the Lord.

God is indescribably powerful and resourceful. To Him, no difference exists between what we see as simple and what we regard as complicated. For God, there is a blurring of the line between these two extremes.

If you were financially strapped, you would see a big difference between an item that costs $5 dollars and another brand of the same item for $20. But to a billionaire, there is virtually no difference between the two. That’s because a billionaire has so much money.

Similarly, at times, we may ask ourselves why does God seem to do things the complicated way? But in His eyes, there is absolutely no difference between what seems to be the easy route and what seems to be complicated or even impossible. It’s all the same to Him. This is the awesome God we serve. And our thinking and faith need to gravitate to that higher level.

Sometimes, God will tear down what we have built so He can do a new thing. Or suffer a phase of failure so that we might ultimately succeed. He may take us around the world to get us across the street. But in the end, God is faithful—always.

For just about anything in life, more than one way exists to do it. But our focus should always be upon God’s way of doing things.