Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Bible in a Year: Judges 12-16 | Ephesians 6

Characteristics of God: He is wise.

Isaiah 55:8-9 
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

This truth that Isaiah shares is both comforting and humbling. Comforting, because it means I don’t have to have everything figured out. Humbling, because even when I feel confident in my understanding, I’m still seeing only a small part of what God sees fully.

I go through seasons when I hold tightly to a vision that makes complete sense to me. It is organized, thought out. It feels right. But slowly, things start shifting. The doors I expected to open don’t. Conversations go sideways. Plans unravel in ways I cannot understand. And if I’m honest, I feel frustrated because things are not lining up the way I think they should.

Life doesn’t always follow the plans I work so hard to build.

But in the middle of all that, God begins to redirect my steps in ways I don’t expect, and in ways I don’t necessarily like at first. What felt like disruption was actually protection. What felt like a delay was actually a direction. And over time, I can see his wisdom at work in ways I never could have orchestrated on my own.

That’s the thing about God’s wisdom. It doesn’t always look like clarity in the moment. Sometimes it looks like closed doors, changed plans, or unexpected turns. Sometimes it looks like silence when you desperately want answers.

But his wisdom is never absent.

He is not confused about your situation. He is not reacting to your life as it unfolds. He is not trying to figure things out as he goes.

He sees the whole picture - the past, present, and future. And he is guiding you with wisdom higher than anything you can see right now.

And now, some of the things I once begged God for are the very things I thank him for protecting me from. His perspective is eternal, while mine is immediate. His vision is complete, while mine is partial.

So when someone asks me, “What is God like?” my answer is, “He is wise.”

And because he is wise, you can trust him even when you don’t understand.

Questions:
Where in your life are you struggling to trust God’s wisdom over your own understanding?

Can you look back on a disappointment or closed door and now see God’s protection or direction in it?

Next Steps: 
Write down one situation you have been trying to control or fully understand. Then spend a few minutes surrendering it to God in prayer, asking him to help you trust his wisdom even before you see the outcome.

Prayer: 
God, thank you for seeing what I cannot see. When life feels confusing, delayed, or different from what I expected, help me trust that your wisdom is still leading me. Remind me that you are never absent, never uncertain, and never caught off guard by my circumstances. Teach me to loosen my grip on my own understanding and rest in the truth that your ways are higher, wiser, and better than mine. Amen.

Series Theme Verse:
Jeremiah 9:23-24a
This is what the Lord says: “Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord….”

Written by Monique Myers, a Perrysburg attendee and regular contributor to the Daily.