Today's Insight - November 23, 2012

The Riddles of Life
by Charles R. Swindoll

By His breath the heavens are cleared; 
His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. . . . 
But His mighty thunder, who can understand?
Job 26:13–14

There are numerous riddles in life that remain wrapped in mystery and shrouded inside an enigma. 

The sea, for example, is an unexplainable phenomenon. Who can fathom its tide affected strangely by the moon . . . ? We manage to continue on, though brilliant scientists have been trying to solve and/or explain life's mysteries for years. . . . 

But when God leaves us with a mystery that isn't solved in a week or two, most of us go through desperate struggles believing that He is good or fair. 

I mean, after all, if we're going to trust a good God, He should do only good things, right? No fair doing mysterious stuff!

The Bible that I read simply doesn't present that as the way life is. Yet the world I live in seems to expect that. And that's certainly the cynic's line: "You mean to tell me you are going to trust a God who treats you like that?" 

When will we ever learn that cynics have no capacity to understand the profound and unfathomable ways of God?

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