The Lord's wisdom and power are so much greater than ours that he is able to perform his work through seemingly insignificant means. Accordingly, He and his Son appeared to a 14 year-old farm boy in the New York woods. By so doing, the Lord confounded the wise and brought about the salvation of many souls. Also, the Lord has brought to light a 531-page book which, by size alone, is dwarfed by the volumes of philosophy, history, and fiction. Yet the greatest philosophers, historians and fiction writers are unable to equal the rich truths in this small work. Furthermore, missionaries that are often still teenagers, are armed with the power of God and the Spirit of truth by which they have been confounding the wise and saving souls for generations. The list could go on forever, but consider one more example: the Lord doesn't speak to us by the blaring of trumpets but by a voice so still and small that it is often not even heard. Those tuned to its message receive truths which are at once confounding and saving.
We marvel at the Lord and his doings. He reminds us, my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith 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 (Isa 55:8-9).