God's ways are not our ways

[mizpeh]

Why does God do things the way He does?

Are His ways completely past finding out?

Did Job go through the loss of all things for no reason other than to show Satan that Job could be faithful when tested?

Here's a short excerpt from a devotional by D.A. Carson called For the Love of God, Vol. 1. The portion of the daily bible reading he is discussing is from Exodus 2.

"...We are introduced to Moses when he has already so identified with the enslaved Israelites that he is prepared to murder a brutal Egyptian overlord. When he discovers that the murder he has committed has become public knowledge, he must flee for his life.

Yet one cannot help reflecting on the place of this episode in the plotline that leads to Moses' leadership of the Exodus some decades later. By God's own judicial action, many Egyptians would then die. So why doesn't God use Moses now while he is still a young man, full of zeal and eagerness to serve and emancipate his people?

It simply isn't God's way. God wants Moses to learn meekness and humility, to rely on God's powerful and spectacular intervention, to await God's timing. He acts in such a way that no one will be able to say that the real hero is Moses, the great visionary. By the time he is eighty, Moses does not want to serve in this way; he is no longer and idealistic, fiery visionary. He is an old man whom God almost cajoles (Exo. 3) and even threatens (Exo 4:14) into obedience. There is therefore no hero but God, and no glory for anyone other than God."

Should we really want answers to why God does what He does or should we simply leave it in His hands, trust Him that He knows what He's doing and what is good for us, and determine in our hearts to enjoy the ride wherever it takes us even through the shadow of death because He's in the driver's seat?

[EA]

This is a hard thing to comprehend.

I struggle with it often.