| “For my thoughts are not your thoughts…” |
| —Isaiah 55:8 |
It impossible for us to fully understand the thoughts and intentions of God. We can’t psychoanalyze God. We can’t completely figure out what He is doing in every situation. We can only know as much about Him as He has chosen to reveal to us.
For example we know that He is the awesome, all-powerful creator of the universe. We know that He is tender-hearted and loving toward those He chooses to belong to Himself. We know that He extends mercy and grace to those who follow Him. We know that He has given us many promises in His written Word, the Bible. We know that He is always faithful and always true.
But the development of our faith and trust comes forth most clearly when we understand that, this side of eternity, we can never fully know God completely. He has much higher thoughts than we do. God has told us this Himself in Isaiah 55:8-9:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
I actually think it’s pretty amazing that God has revealed to us as much as He has done when He sent His one and only Son to earth to be our Savior. Jesus is “Emmanuel,” meaning “God with us.”
Jesus told us in John 14:9 that:
“…anyone who has seen me has seen my Father.”
So, through Jesus, we know so much more about the nature and character of God.
Part of the joy of the Christian life comes from the fact that we are loved by a God whom we cannot fully know in this life. But, we will spend eternity with Him and there we will see Him face to face. In that Day, His higher thoughts will be revealed. And, we will stand amazed in His Presence. Oh what a Day that will be.
Based on a blog originally posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016
