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"For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, Nor [are] your ways My ways," says the LORD. Isaiah 55:8
In Isaiah 55:7, God tells the wicked to "forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts." In verse 8 He explains, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways." Does that mean if you're saved and obeying Him, that your thoughts and ways are much closer to God's thoughts and ways? Absolutely!
Still, God is all-knowing and sees the end of all matters from their beginning and understands absolutely everything--things that you find incomprehensible. So it's still often a quantum leap to trust God's thoughts since what He says often flies in the face of human logic.
But you've already learned down through the years that people you didn't think knew what they were talking about actually did. A quote often attributed to Mark Twain says, "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
When you get to heaven, you'll have a good laugh about how you once thought you knew better than God.
Prayer: Lord, You are the Almighty, from eternity to eternity, wiser than any man. Nevertheless, help me begin to understand Your ways and Your thoughts. In Jesus' name, I pray.
In Isaiah 55:7, God tells the wicked to "forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts." In verse 8 He explains, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways." Does that mean if you're saved and obeying Him, that your thoughts and ways are much closer to God's thoughts and ways? Absolutely!
Still, God is all-knowing and sees the end of all matters from their beginning and understands absolutely everything--things that you find incomprehensible. So it's still often a quantum leap to trust God's thoughts since what He says often flies in the face of human logic.
But you've already learned down through the years that people you didn't think knew what they were talking about actually did. A quote often attributed to Mark Twain says, "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
When you get to heaven, you'll have a good laugh about how you once thought you knew better than God.
Prayer: Lord, You are the Almighty, from eternity to eternity, wiser than any man. Nevertheless, help me begin to understand Your ways and Your thoughts. In Jesus' name, I pray.
I guess we have all been there brother.
