The All-Knowing God

As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9

The company that laid Lee off on January 9, 2009 went bankrupt last week. Though the company was clearly not doing well financially, it surprised us that it went down so quickly. Of course, this meant that the “two months’ severance” that Lee was promised on his last day of work is no longer available.

God’s sovereign care of our family has, again, caused our jaws to drop. Lee got a job the same week that the funds from the last company came to an end.

We can’t help but wonder:

Had Lee not begun looking for jobs immediately upon his layoff, he would not have found a job so quickly. (Had he rationalized to himself, “I’ve got two months—let’s take a break for a few days…” I’m so blessed to have a hardworking husband.)

Had Lee not been laid off, he would have lost his job anyway, three weeks later, but without any severance pay. The short-lived payments we got in early January helped tie us over until Lee got another job last week.

Had Lee not begun looking for a job in the time that he did, he would not have landed his current job. The window of opportunity was extremely small—and he submitted his résumé at the precise time necessary to secure the job.

Had Lee not quit his job last May to join the company that just went down, he would have never been laid off, and thus would have never found his current job, which is a much more stable company to work for (with amazing perks—he gets a 407 transponder from the company—no more expensive toll bills to pay, and the company is going to invest money in training him!).

And to imagine our earlier devastation when we received the news that Lee was going to be let go! Fast forward, exactly a month later, and we have gone from devastation to relief!

O Lord, You have truly opened our eyes to Your awesome power and omniscience.

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink;
or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more important than food,
and the body more important than clothes?

Look at the birds of the air;
they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?
Who of you by worrying
can add a single hour to his life?

"And why do you worry about clothes?
See how the lilies of the field grow.
They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon
in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field,
which is here today
and tomorrow is thrown into the fire,
will he not much more clothe you,
O you of little faith?

So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?'
or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
For the pagans run after all these things,
and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6