I am a logical person.

I prefer math over grammar.

I like things to be black and white, clear and simple, have all of the loose ends tied into neat square knots.

I want clear, logical solutions to problems.

Guess what? If you’ve spent any amount of time in the existence we all know as “life,” then you know what’s coming: life isn’t that easy.

So often we’re faced with situations that are anything BUT logical. They certainly don’t make sense.

How do we respond then?

If I’m being perfectly honest, my first impulse has often been to panic. To dive into full-blown human worry mode and overthink every angle until I’m mentally exhausted. This method also never gets me anywhere…

Thankfully, it’s in those places that we can lean on God. At the end of our resources, His stores of abundance are only beginning.

Let go? Release the problem? Completely relax my worrying even when the problem is clearly not figured out yet?! You mean I’m supposed to trust God to solve it… without my help?

YES!!!

Because God is not a logical Being.

His Power is displayed most extravagantly when His plans defy all logic. God is not bound to performing within what seems sensible to human reasoning.

That’s why He chose to create such intricate relationships within nature.

That is why He decided to create each of us in His own image.

When we sinned, logically, God should have condemned us all and started over. What did He owe us? Nothing.

But God chose to punish Himself for our sin, and let us be pardoned.

He came in the lowliest way – born in flesh to a poor virgin girl in a stable. No majestic arrival or grand welcome. It didn’t make sense that He was really the Promised One – yet Messiah is exactly Who had come.

Then He died, and those who believed Him to be their Deliverer all but gave up on that hope. Human logic wouldn’t expect Him to come back to life – but that’s exactly what happened. Against all logic.

The events of the Salvation plan – from the manger to the cross, and finally the victorious resurrection – were the greatest miracles of all time! Yet the plot of the entire story goes completely against all reasoning. It is completely illogical – to us.

So you’ve been seeking God’s will and trying to live it out… then life gets complicated, nothing makes sense, and you see no logical way forward? Breathe deep. Smile. And get ready for something great. Because it’s outside of our resources that God writes His best stories for us. Good and Perfect.

Dear soul… let go and Trust Him. That is the only choice which always makes Good, Perfect, Logical Sense.