In the old covenant, in Isaiah 55:8 it says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. This encouraged people to make statements such as, “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” And this was true under the old covenant.

However in the new covenant, we become closer to God through Jesus. In the new covenant, John 15:15 says, I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. What this is saying is that, for the believer, the Lord no longer works in mysterious ways. We obtain the knowledge of God through Jesus.

So for every situation we face in life, through prayer and meditation, we have an opportunity to understand God’s reasoning behind what we faced. Gone are the days where we simply accept what we go through without any explanation.

Let’s spend more time with God to receive revelation on what we faced and to prepare for things to come.

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him. 10 But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.