Isaiah 55:8-9 (NLT)
“My thoughts
are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And My ways are far beyond anything you
could imagine. For just as the heavens
are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts
higher than your thoughts.”
Whatever opinion
or thought that you have about what is going on around you, what you think will
happen, what opinions you have, anything that involves your human thinking and
reasoning and decision-making, be assured that God’s thoughts and ways about
the same situations are opposite of yours.
Not only are they opposite but they are “higher” (greater, eternal,
godly). Here are some examples:
· You believe and conclude that you are incapable to accomplish something
that you’ve been asked to do or feel the call to do in the church. God will see to it that you are very capable
of accomplishing that task/ministry.
· You look at your life and your circumstances and see nothing but doom and
gloom. God sees your life as special,
wonderful, and purposeful.
· You make a judgment about someone else that is very negative. God’s judgment of that person is opposite of
your negative view.
· You see no purpose or meaning in something you are doing or what someone
else is doing or even who that someone else is.
God sees the opposite.
· You conclude that a certain outcome is going to occur with that outcome
being very negative. God sees that
outcome as very positive.
· You hate something or someone; God loves that something or someone
· You see life from a very narrow and temporal perspective. God sees life from an eternal
perspective. Think about how you view a
situation going on right now in life compared to a 5-6 year old child. Magnify that difference infinitesimally and
that’s the difference between you and God viewing the same situation.
Ever since I was
first made aware of these verses, I have caught myself many times thinking
negative thoughts and remembering that these are not God’s thoughts. I have caught myself acting or wanting to act
in certain ways, then remembering that these are not God’s ways. I have often wanted to take the “low road”
and speak or act foolishly, then am reminded that God always takes the high
road. Often at the moment of time I’m
wanting to do or say something negatively and then reminded of these verses,
I’m wanting to ignore them. However, I
try not to and take the high road, but temporarily I’m unhappy about taking the
high road. However, always…….yes,
always……later I am so happy and relieved that I took that high road and did not
say or do what I really wanted to say or do.
His ways are always higher and you are divinely guided and protected to
follow His ways, not your own.
No, you and I are
not God and we cannot always think and act like Him, but it is our mission as
His children while on this earth to keep progressing toward being godly in all
that we think and say and do.
In what situation(s) right now
are you at a crossroads where you either can react with your words and your
ways or choose to react via His thoughts and ways? Keep these words from Isaiah close to your
mind and heart as you will need them many times to help deal the right way with
conflicts and problems that always come into your life.
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