God Knows Best

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Anxious about a health issue my teenage niece had, I was relieved when I heard of a promising natural remedy. My sister, however, felt it might cause side effects, based on her daughter’s medical history. I wanted to argue but refrained. No matter how concerned I was about my niece, I had to defer to her mom’s authority.

Later, a doctor told us, “That natural remedy would’ve caused a strong allergic reaction.” When it comes to my niece’s welfare, her mom truly knows what’s best for her─in ways that I don’t.

I remember this incident when I’m anxious about other loved ones, asking God to help them the way I think they should be helped. I remember that God, who loves them and knows them infinitely more than I do, knows best.

In Isaiah 55:9, God says, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.” The Hebrew word for ways means “journey” or “manner.” God’s wisdom and manner of doing things aren’t just different from ours; they’re infinitely greater. The journey He plans for a loved one may not be what we want, but we can trust Him to work in their lives as He sees best.

Let’s keep entrusting those we love to God by “present[ing our] requests to God” (Philippians 4:6). He alone is perfect in love, mercy, wisdom, and sovereignty (Isaiah 55:3, 7-11).

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0:00.0	My ways are higher than your ways. Isaiah chapter 55, verse 9.
0:09.5	Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our reading titled God knows best,
0:15.9	was written by Karen Huang and read by Joyce Dinkins.
0:22.3	Isaiah chapter 55, verses 6 through 11.
0:27.2	Seek the Lord while he may be found, call on him while he is near.
0:33.1	Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
0:38.0	Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
0:45.7	For my thoughts are not your thoughts.
0:49.1	Neither are your ways, my ways, declares the Lord.
0:52.7	As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
0:57.1	ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not
1:03.7	return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the
1:10.3	sower and bread for the eater.
1:12.6	So is my word that goes out from my mouth.
1:16.2	It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose
1:22.8	for which I sent it.
1:27.4	God knows best, written by Karen Wong.
1:32.9	Anxious about a health issue my teenage niece had,
1:36.4	I was relieved when I heard of a promising natural remedy.
1:41.0	My sister, however, felt it might cause side effects based on her daughter's medical history.
1:47.9	I wanted to argue, but refrained. No matter how concerned I was about my niece, I had to defer to her mom's authority.
1:58.5	Later, a doctor told us that natural remedy would have caused a strong allergic reaction.
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