How do you explain the grace and calling of God? How can we explain the ways His hands work in our lives? How can we comprehend a divine destiny carved out in our mother’s wombs and the invitation of our Creator to walk with Him into a journey of discovery of grace, hope and truth?
The more that I walk down the road of my life I meet one after another who, speaking of the things they have encountered and experienced in their lives say, “I can’t explain it … but this is what happened!”
I can’t explain many things in my journey: a calling to leave all that I knew and go to the inner city, miraculous provision and protection in the South Bronx, performing a gospel drama for a community celebration for Fidel Castro’s birthday in Cuba, being part of a miracle that brought salvation to a minority tribe in Vietnam, seeing a blind man’s eyes opened in Chile, a man with a skin disease healed in Argentina, the sound of mighty rushing waters coming into a church in Sao Paolo as God brought renewal to a congregation.
God sets us on a journey, a quest of discovery, a path far different than we would have ever imagined and could have never designed. The Great Architect and Composer of lives and destinies sets us on this journey of unexplainable things. And what do we discover?
The mighty, awesome, powerful, amazing, unexplainable God.
What a journey. What a quest!
Our focus must not be on the quest, but on the God who calls, who lavishes His love on us and designs destinies for the discovery of His greatness, a life-changing journey of unexplainable things that give us glimpses of His magnificent glory.
Can the creation ever fully understand the Creator? Man makes many feeble attempts to analyze and explain the ways of God. As soon as we think we can explain Him, He surprises us yet again. That is absolutely fine. The righteous don’t live by knowledge. They live by faith.
He is filled with amazing wonder, revealing Himself just enough so that we will pursue Him all the more. He invites us on a journey of destiny we could never design ourselves. I don’t even think we will know all the details on this earth. He gives us free will and likewise to all of those around us, yet is able to order our steps and accomplish His will.
Can any of us explain that? Of course not. And that’s fine, because He is God and we are not.
Where He leads, He protects. He guides. He provides. He is a God of covenant. He is faithful when we are and when we are not. To those who pursue Him, He reveals His awesome glory and surprises us at every end.
The divine purpose of our journey is not in what we do or what we accomplish doing it … whatever “it” is. That is good news for those of us consumed with the weight of “doing” and weary with the temporal.
No, the life He created has more to offer. This is a quest, a journey of discovery in which the doing and accomplishing are merely vehicles to experience greater things, unexplainable things, and in them, experience glimpses of the glory and majesty and nearness of God Himself, and momentary, sometimes life-altering glimpses of the unexplainable awesomeness of the life to come.
He invites you into this journey. Your pathway will be different from mine, but the results can be the same: You will be changed, and you will know Creator as your friend.