“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
-Isaiah 55:8-9

I think Toffer and I have both talked about how we’ve learned a lot over the past couple years and how God had deepened and broadened our faith. One of the things I’ve been pondering a lot recently (in the few moments of less-than-insanity that occasionally creeps into our very hectic lives) is how mysterious God is.  We have scripture to learn about Him and experiences we or other we know have had, but ultimately God is mysterious.  Our finite brains can only wrap themselves around who God is to a point and beyond that we have to just trust in what we do know to make up for what we don’t.

While I very much am a person who likes answers to why and how, I’m learning to just trust and enjoy the mystery of God-how He actually works and moves, what He’s like beyond what my mind can grasp and imagine, how complex He is, and on and on.  I like that God is more than I can imagine, more than I can even begin to think.  If I were able to really understand all of who He is and what He does that would not make Him a very big God nor one who is perfectly holy. I’ll continue to contemplate the mystery, even if it drives me crazy some days, knowing that God is bigger and mightier and greater than I am and that He’s moving and working in ways that I have no way to even begin to comprehend.

Raising support has been one of those ways that God’s movements are mysterious and sometimes (to us) nonsensical and unreasoned. Clearly God always knows what He’s doing and we have trusted in that, but sitting day after day in the unknown can be insane and intense.  Right now a big mystery to us is how God is going to finish out our support team.  We got an email a few minutes ago with a pledge from one more family who has committed to be part of our team. We so enjoy seeing our team grow and develop. And we know the mystery of the rest of our team will be revealed in God’s timing.  The irony of it is that just a few minutes before I checked my email Toffer said he was wondering where the rest of what we needed to reach our July 18 goal was coming from. That email answered a big part of that question. We now have 98.6% of our monthly support for the goal of $5724 on July 18 and 86.1% of our overall goal of $6558. It’s exciting and I’m ready to continue seeing what mysteries God reveals and which ones He choose to leave unanswered.