Rey confronts Luke about his version of what happened with Kylo Ren compared with what Kylo Ren told her.
She believes, “If he [Kylo] would turn from the Dark Side, that could shift the tide! This could be how we win!”
But Luke tells her, “This is not going to go the way you think!”
Isaiah 55:8-9 reminds us that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are higher and better.
Often, we have a plan in mind about how things will go. We build up, rather quickly, a scenario where everything works (for good or bad). But we do not know the future.
God may or may not allow things to turn out as we think or predict, just as things did not turn out for Rey like she had seen them in her mind.
James 4:13-14 reminds us, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’ — yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”
We need to live out our lives as James 4:15 tells us “Instead [we] ought to say ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’”
By committing ourselves to what God wants in our lives, we can live out His higher ways.
How do we do this?
We need to live out Romans 12:2 and “…but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
