Feb.04.03: Light For The Day - "Take It By Faith" -- Isaiah 55:8,9 (NKJV) "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts." -------------------------- Despite all of our searching and all of our study of the Scriptures, we'll never be able to see everything clearly, to fully grasp and understand and answer all the questions. They are beyond our comprehension -- a puzzle, a mystery. In "Keep a Quiet Heart", Elizabeth Elliott says, "Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now." Much of what happens in life we simply have to take by faith. Answers will not be forthcoming. These are the tensions of reality, and if we get marooned on the tensions, we will not be able to travel further. That is as our heavenly Father planned it. -- Charles Swindoll -------------- -- Proverbs 16:9 (NKJV) "A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps." -- Isaiah 46:9,10 (NIVUS) "9 Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. 10 I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please." -- Jeremiah 10:23 (NIVUS) "I know, O LORD, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps."