The ways of the wind

“As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.” - Ecclesiastes 11v5

There is no way that we are ever going to figure it all out. We are full and “whys” and “hows” but there are some things are just too marvellous to understand. We can no more figure out the way God works that we can figure out the wind. We can measure the wind, we can see what it does, and we can even take a good guess as to what it is going to do. But, at the end of the day God is on control of the wind – “The Lord has His way in the storm, and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. Only He knows for sure where the wind will blow next.

When we think of a child in the womb we consider a great mystery. With modern technology we can look inside the womb to determine the sex of the child. We can see some of its characteristics and traits. But, until a child is born and begins to grow we cannot know the way he will take. Only God knows that.
Just like these things we cannot know what is going is doing in a particular situation. All we can see is the moment and we can never comprehend the eternal consequences. Yet, the God Who makes all does. He knows how it is all going to work out and in the end He will have the victory. May we have the faith to trust Him and His way without always trying to figure it our for ourselves.