Friday: When God's Answer Looks Different

Reading: Isaiah 55:8–9; Romans 8:28 (ESV)

Isaiah 55:8–98 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares 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.

Romans 8:2828 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Devotional: God healed the Shunammite woman's son, but He didn't prevent the widow's husband from dying. He multiplied oil for one family but allowed Horatio Spafford's daughters to drown. Why does God perform miracles in some cases and not others? It remains a mystery this side of heaven. Yet this we know: God always heals—through medicine, miracles, or ultimately in heaven's perfection. Our job isn't to dictate the method; it's to bring Him what we've got and trust His wisdom. Sometimes the miracle is provision, sometimes healing, sometimes peace that surpasses understanding. God's ways are higher than ours, and His no's are as loving as His yeses. Whatever you're facing today, will you trust that God is working, even when His answer looks different than you hoped?

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