For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith 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. Isaiah 55:8-9 KJV
The Context:
Isaiah speaks of an invitation by God to all who will heed God's call. God does not force anyone to heed; He just lays it all out and asks me to come. The warning, however, is that I do not have forever to make up my mind. Events around the world speak of the end of the age, when Jesus returns for all who are eagerly waiting for Him. There is a time to seek God; when you have found Him, it does not matter what else you don't have. If you don't have him, all the wealth of the world will not save you on the day of God's wrath. That is why today's extract is quite important: I need to align myself with God's divine plan, if I want to end up in line with God's divine plan.
The Commission:
God's process for dealing with man does not really go according to man's plan. The nature of God is both very predictable and also very unpredictable at the same time: from the time of Adam, what he called sin is still sin in our days, yet he has so many ways to bring his plan and purpose to pass in my life. If He can give over 7 billion people on earth distinct fingerprints, He has over 7 billion ways to solve a particular problem. He does not need my permission to be God, but if I allow Him work, my life will be glad I did. Long before I was born, He has been working out His eternal plan, and if He tarries long enough, long after I have finished my race, and the earth remains, He will continue to work out His eternal plan. That is the power, might and wisdom of the God who calls me His own, and invites me to come to Him.
The Conclusion:
He made the heaven and the earth yet none can contain or limit Him. There is nothing created that does not answer to the authority of its Creator. God's thoughts are such that my human mind cannot fully comprehend the depths or heights or scope of God's divine plan for me. That which I call bad could be the right ingredient for an amazing miracle. That which I call ordinary becomes very extraordinary in the hands of the amazing God. With God, distance isn't anything. At His command, even the devil obeys. If this is the God who calls me to Himself, I had better respond to His call. My acceptance of His power makes it easy for Him to work out what He wants to do in me unhindered. Would I let Him work? Would you? God's time of favour is here.
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