Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares 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. I find myself referring to this passage of scripture more and more as I grow in the Christian graces. The more we think we are like God and Christ in reality the farther we realize we are away from their character. I guess what I am saying is that no Christian in their right mind would say that they were matched up exactly with the thoughts or the ways of God. In ones own study you would come to the conclusion that the more you learn and understand about God the more you come to the understanding that you are failing to achieve the very thing you are striving to attain, a godly life. However, through the prophet here God says in fact, that NO, our thoughts and our ways are not the same as His. We may have good thoughts. We may have good ways. You see, there is a big difference in being good most of the time and being God all of the time. We may think we have got this thing called life all figured out and that is about the time it kicks you in the backside.
God is our god because of the character He has. What good would it be for us to have a god that thinks like we do, lives like we do, rationalizes like we do? We would have humanism, that’s what we would have. It would do us no good whatsoever. Really that is what we do when we try to fit God into our mold rather than letting Him mold us as He sees fit.
We have Christ as our God. Scripture says in Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. This is just a reminder to us that there is a difference between the way we are and the way our God is. It is not a slam to us that our ways are not the same as God’s. It really is a wake-up call to us that without a change, a conversion, a definite turn in our life we cannot be even called children of God. So when we find passages of scripture that make us feel inadequate or convict us in our life or attitude, don’t get upset, be thankful. Be thankful that even though we mess up as much as we do He still wants for us to strive, to try, to put forth an effort to be like Him. Remember while we do this be sure to Praise Him for His patience.
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