Logic

Logic...
Light For Life January 2006

I was talking today with a friend, we were talking about some things that are happening in our lives and in the lives of those around us. We started talking about logic, sometimes the answers to the biggest problems and scenarios in our lives do not come out of logical circumstances – as a matter of fact they can some so far out of left field that it is inconceivable.

So we started thinking about logic…. The things that seem logical to us are not logical to God. So I asked the question, is God logical? I kind of felt there were two answers to that – yes and no! Yes God has to be logical – but so many things that happen around us are not logical are they? Yet by the end result we can see the logic in them; I think it is a bit of an enigma. God's logic makes perfect sense to Him and no sense to us. That is why so many things that happen to us that seem illogical at the time lead to our greatest breakthroughs and to miracles - my life is a testimony to that.

I guess the conclusion we came to is that God’s logic is not our logic. God’s logic stands alone… it is God’s logic, not ours. The two are quite different and are based on different premises. God’s logic is pure, it is based on love, it sees the end from the beginning, and it is already predetermined. Our logic, although it can make sense, is flawed, it is human logic and so it is limited and it is more easily put in a box.

So many things in our life don't seem logical but their outcomes are just what we have been praying for, the things we pray for come through circumstances we could never imagine!!!. I am sure that many of you are like me; there are desires in your hearts, for good things, for miracles in situations, for answers. I have looked over my last two years and I can testify that the biggest miracles and breakthroughs come out of the most illogical situations and circumstances.

When God shows us to do something, what he requires is our obedience not our logic, but in most of our situations it is our logic that dictates to us what to do and when to do it. I cannot begin to tell you all the miracles that I have seen in the last two years and it was all started by a situation that was beyond my comprehension, something that I thought just could not be what God wanted for me, now looking back I can see He was positioning me, but again, not in the way we think of positioning. We think of positioning as an upper hand, in my case positioning was coming to the unknown, to a place of uncertainty, a place of seeing my insecurities, and to look back now and see what it has brought me and my family is truly overwhelming and humbling. It is not logical!

So Van Nguyen, an Australian caught in Singapore for trafficking drugs, was hanged just about a month ago now for his crime. I sat and read some of the letters he has written, his deep innermost thoughts which leave me totally convinced that he had truly come to faith, his words revealed his heart and his level of understanding of God. He believed this was all part of God’s plan for him, he came to a deep awakening of God and it brought him such peace….doesn't make sense does it? He knew this was all to take place for a greater good – and though his act of trafficking drugs blackened his name, his finding of God transformed him and changed him so, that I believe in his death he is a beacon of light and he pointed the way to God. Was this his destiny? It seems so; it seems that is the conclusion he came to. Is that logic? No, there is not logic in that, but will it change people’s lives, will it prevent people’s deaths, will it change someone’s life, will it lead others to faith? I think most definitely. Why was it that we were so profoundly affected by his execution?

Jesus going to the cross was not logic, yet it wrought for humanity its biggest gift, it paid a price that could not be paid for by us, it has brought for those who acknowledge Him, and receive His free gift of salvation, life that although is at times challenging, be a life of peace, love, true wholeness and most of all eternal.

Don't always look for logic in your life? If you are looking for logic, you will probably not find it, you may find confusion, and you may find more questions, even anger. Like those who did not make it to the World Trade Center for some reason or another that fateful day, it defies logic. Don't look for logic in your life when your life has been given over to Him. God's logic + our obedience, trust and following Him = miracles and answers! Just be thankful, trust your life to the One who has written every one of your days in His book, commit your ways to Him, stay close to Him, He has your best interests at heart. After all that is logical!

Love
Cam

P.S Happy New Year - may it be blessed and miraculous. Not just words but my prayer for you all. Trust and see what God can do in your life in 2006. Do yourself a favour and write down some goals for the year then you will see what He has done when it draws to a close next year!


Word For Life

Logic
A science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration : the science of the formal principles of reasoning, a particular mode of reasoning viewed as valid or faulty, interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, something that forces a decision apart from or in opposition to reason.

Premise
To set forth beforehand as an introduction or a postulate, to offer as a premise in an argument, to base on certain assumptions.

The Word

Isaiah 55:8-9
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.