“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9
I looked at the bedside clock and was surprised to see
that I had slept until 6:44 a.m. But when I got out of bed, glancing again at
the clock, the time was only 6:15. My thoughts raced back to the morning when God
woke me with the 3:16 a.m. flashing time, sending me on a Bible verse journey
where I learned about the Book of Remembrance in Malachi. I looked up 6:15 and
6:44 in the Bible’s sixty-six books yet found nothing “eye-opening.” But researching
those time references through God’s Word did lead me to a passage with a timely message that I would not have otherwise discovered.
God doesn’t carbon copy His work. Jumping to conclusions about His activity can sometimes misdirect our course and cost us a missed blessing for ourselves and others. But that morning, God honored my search through the Scriptures. Despite acting under an incorrect presumption of what I thought He wanted, I learned about the Service of Song in the first book of Chronicles, a biblical “golden nugget” I passed on to others. No matter what draws us to read the Bible, the results are never fruitless:
“So shall my Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it
shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11
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