My Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts…

 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways," says 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

I read this the other night and sighed a big, relieved kind of sigh. It was what I needed to hear. God’s thoughts and ways are higher than ours. He is utterly pure and holy. In Him, is no darkness at all. He is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. My God is sovereign.  He knows all things and yet He condescends and is intimately involved in every nano second of my existence. My sins…every single last one of them…past, present and future have been forgiven.  He pities me as a Father…He knows my frame…He remembers that I am dust.  

For as the heavens are high above the earth,

So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;

As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

As a father pities his children,

So the LORD pities those who fear Him.

For He knows our frame;

He remembers that we are dust.—Psalm 103

The verses at the top reminded me once again just how utterly ridiculous it is for me to concern myself with things that are not my concern.  God rules and overrules in the kingdom of men.  It is even more ridiculous for me to try to tell the Lord what to do in any situation. I am thankful that as His child I can instead bring my heart to Him.  I can do as Psalm 62 says. 

Trust in Him at all times, you people;

Pour out your heart before Him;

God is a refuge for us.

Selah—Psalm 62:8

Today then, I will bring my fears and my cares to Him, the One who loves me with an everlasting love. The One who draws me with cords of kindness. As I do, I will once again realize that He sees what I don’t. He knows the end from the beginning. And by His grace my heart will say, Abba,…I trust You…Your will be done. 

LORD, my heart is not haughty,

Nor my eyes lofty.

Neither do I concern myself with great matters,

Nor with things too profound for me.

Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,

Like a weaned child with his mother;

Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, hope in the LORD

From this time forth and forever.—Psalm 131

Beloved… Let His word fill and overflow You. Set your mind on the heavenly. Focus your heart on the eternal God. He is your refuge and underneath are His everlasting arms. 

Let my teaching drop as the rain,

My speech distill as the dew,

As raindrops on the tender herb,

And as showers on the grass.

For I proclaim the name of the LORD:

Ascribe greatness to our God.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect;

For all His ways are justice,

A God of truth and without injustice;

Righteous and upright is He.—Deuteronomy 32:2-4