Last time we considered one of my favourite hymns,'Amazing Grace',the next hymn I would like us to . consider is my next favourite,'God moves in mysterious ways. 'It was written by William Cowper, a poet highly esteemed in his life time,a man who suffered from severe mental illness,and yet in this hymn we have so much spiritual insight.The opening line declares a very wonderful truth,that God moves in a mysterious way'. In Romans 8 v 33,we read 'How unsearchable are His judgements,and His ways past finding out'.We could link this verse up to Isaiah 55 v 8-9,which reads .'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts'.One writer comments,God's thoughts and actions are incomprehensible and beyond are human understanding'.The fact is we cannot nor should we try to bring God down to our level,He is the God who created the universe,we finite creatures will never understand Him who is infinite.When it comes to God it is a matter of faith even when we do not understand His ways.The closing verse sums it up .
'Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan His works in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain'.
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