We pray constantly for God’s unexpressed will in our lives to be done. In providence, according to Scripture, is where God’s unexpressed will is located. God, in His word has revealed His expressed will. He has only chosen to reveal certain things in His word and to make certain knowledge possible by means of his creation or world. To be sure, there are passages that inform us of the truth that we do not always and cannot always know certain things because God has not revealed everything that is reveal-able (Deut.
In fact, it is a comforting thought to think that the Lord knows what is right and best even if in difficult circumstances wherein we find it impossible to know why something has occurred. And those of us who became preachers have quoted it often as suggestive of the idea that we can’t always know what the Lord wants or wills, and some things are beyond our comprehension because the Lord thinks on a higher plane than do we. I’m quite sure that most of us recognize that passage and likely grew up hearing it quoted over and over again. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” In Isaiah 55:8-9 Isaiah long ago wrote, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Of course, at the time the passage is quoted in our hearing, if we don’t look it up ourselves and read the context in which it appears, we likely tend to accept whatever meaning was assigned to it by the one we heard quote it. How many times have passages been quoted and then given a meaning that was readily accepted and never challenged. And a lot of the time, it really doesn’t matter all that much.
It is so very easy to repeat what we have heard without ever looking into what we have heard for ourselves.
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