You said What?

This contradicts logic, I thought. I’d prayed for direction. Now, I struggled with an answer that I believed came from God. 

Then I heard His still small voice speak again. "It doesn’t seem right. It doesn’t look right. But this is right."  I asked for Bible confirmations because what I was told was very strange. He showed me two paradoxes in scripture. 

 You go down to go up. “Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. James 4:10 “Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.” 1 Peter 5:6 

 You give to get. “Give and it shall be given to you.” Luke 6:38 

“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse… Test me... and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessings that there will not be room to store it.” Mal.3: 10-12 

Okay God. I hear you. The fact that your answer contradicts my logic is probably confirmation it's You.