Good Morning Friends,
“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD. ‘As the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.’” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
God thinks differently than we do.
We think short-term, usually about how
something will make us feel immediately, but sometimes looking 10 to 20 years
into the future. God thinks long-term. Not long-term, like 10 to 20 years, but
long-term, like one to two millennia! God thinks with eternity in mind, we
rarely do.
We think selfishly. Perhaps we don’t want to,
but we still usually do. We think in terms of how something is going to affect
us personally. Even when we deny self,
we still think about how things will affect those we know and care about. God
thinks unselfishly. It’s not about Him, it’s about His people, all of them. It’s
not just about His people, it’s about those who aren’t His people, too. Perhaps
most about them! How will what happens affect them? How will it draw them to
Him?
Those are just two ways that God’s thoughts are
different from our own. I’m sure there are more. I’m sure there are ways God’s
thoughts are different from ours that I will never think of.
But there is help for us. Paul wrote, “No one
knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the
spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what
God has freely given us.” (1 Corinthians 2:11-12)
God doesn’t keep us in the dark about what
He’s thinking. He’s given us His Spirit to help us understand His thoughts and
His ways. He’s put Him right inside each of His children.
Don’t trust your own thoughts! Seek to
understand God’s, by listening to His Spirit.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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