This is a devotional I wrote for the TruthMedia team for our monthly update meeting. It came on the heels of a number of tragic events in the Campus Crusade family.

Isaiah 55
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.

9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

This past week has been quite difficult for Power to Change Ministries as well as Campus Crusade for Christ, International. As we gathered in prayer on Thursday, we mourned the sudden passing of a Canadian staff member and grieved with a number of other families that experienced loss.

Just as Job trusted God as his life was turned upside down, we must remember that God’s love for us does not mean that He will do what we feel is best. He has said that everything will work out for good but He does not say when. He doesn’t even say that He will tell us the answer to our prayer, only that He will hear them.

What does it mean when it says that His ways and thoughts are higher than ours? I’m pretty sure that what He is saying is that He has a plan and that we need to trust that He knows what He is doing and that even as the sparrow is under His care, so are we. He can see the big picture in light of eternity. We can’t even accurately predict what is going to happen in 15 seconds with any certainty.

In the meantime, pray for our staff team. Even though we know our team member is celebrating with Jesus and the Father in Heaven, we’ll still miss her and so will the family she left behind here.

Yet this passage isn’t just about the difficult things in life. It is to give us hope that God can take our dreams and visions and expand them to points that we couldn’t even dream of. It is the project that starts out small and seems to blow up on you only to take you to a place that you never would have thought possible. Again, His ways are above ours and His thoughts are too.