Complex Simplicity

I went for a run tonight. Nothing out of the ordinary, I try to go for run's as often as possible. But tonight's run was different. It's as if tonight I was more aware of God speaking to me while I was running. The cool breeze that stopped the beads of sweat from running down my face. The calming noise that the trees made as the wind caused the leaves to sound like waves of the ocean. The way the grassy hill in the middle of campus was being swayed back and forth in rhythm to God's orchestrated movements with the wind.

Then I noticed my thought process begin to shift towards Christ's words in the third chapter of the Gospel of John. He talks to Nicodemus about the need to be born again in order to have eternal life, and in His analogy references the wind. He says that we feel the wind, we can see it's effects - but we do not know where it comes from, it's source. In the same way, we can't understand or comprehend things of God or of the Spirit.

I know I'm not the only one who feels like I'm so lost in understanding God's ways sometimes. I have to keep reminding myself that my thoughts are not His thoughts, and my ways are not His ways. There is a purpose and a plan to everything that is done, though we can not see it right away - or even at all, ever. Sometimes God speaks to us through our trials, sometimes He speaks to us through our victories - sometimes we oversee the way He speaks to us during His provision in our hardships. Yet, no matter the situation, problem, trial or circumstance - God never stops talking to us; we just need to take time to sit back and listen.

Will we always understand? No, of course not. But, I'm learning to be okay with that. I mean, after all, if God would be on my level of understanding, then something isn't right. But this is where trust comes in. Trust in Him that everything will work out according to the good for those who love Him, and for those who serve Him (Romans 8:28). No matter the situation, or the complexity that it forms in your understanding - God is still God, He was good during the great flood of Noah's time, and He still sits on His throne forever (Psalm 29:10). Praise be to God, for He is holy.