WALKING IN REVELATION.

DAILY DEVOTION.

DAY FOURTEEN.

ISAIAH 55:8-9.   "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are My ways your ways," says the Lord, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than yours, and My thoughts are higher than yours."
These verses are quoted so many times by Christians in a bid to prove that we can not really know God's thought or His ways, is this really the case? Does God expect us to live our Christian lives not understanding His will or purpose for us and the thoughts that He has about us? Firstly we must put those verses in context, note what Isaiah says in verse seven, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." So obviously Isaiah is not speaking to people who are walking in the ways of God, He is telling the unrighteous to forsake his ways and his thoughts and return back to God's ways and thoughts because God's ways are so much higher than theirs. So if you are a Christian and you have been taught this, I have good news for you, you can know God's ways and His thoughts for you. Obviously God's thoughts for us and about us are contained in His word. It is as we spend time in the word of God and in prayer that we come to a greater understanding of these things. Jeremiah 33:3 says; "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." God is saying here that if we cry out to Him He will answer us and show amazing things that we have not known before. Jeremiah 29:11, "For I the thoughts that I think towards you," says the Lord, "thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." If we are going to know what that future and hope is then we are going to have to know what God is thinking. Well praise God that we can. In John 16;12-15 Jesus told His disciples that He had much more to share with them but that they would have to wait until the Holy Spirit had been given to them, but that once He had come He would lead them into the truth and that the Holy Spirit would take what Jesus shared with Him and tell the disciples. Jesus said to His disciple in John 15 that He loved them in the same way that the Father had loved Him, and that they needed to abide or live in that love, So they were going to have an understanding of that love, well the same applies to us. If we are to walk in the love of God and minister to others out of that love then we are going to have to know it and how to apply it to our lives on a daily basis. In the book of Ephesians, Chapter 2:16-21 Paul's prayer is that we would be able to understand and know how to walk in and apply the love of God in our daily lives, regardless of the situation. And as we do this we will see God do things way beyond what we could ever imagine through the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The result is that God gets all the glory for what has happened. So we can see from these verses that it is God's will for us to know the thoughts that God has towards us and what is ways are. Moses was one who knew the ways of God, Psalm 103:7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel. The children of Israel say the acts of God, but they did not really understand the ways of God, when we knows the ways of God we are able understand why God does what He does. It is important that we have this understanding so that we can discern what God is doing, so when He does certain things we know which way He is leading us. Moses understood the ways of God, so he was able to lead the children of Israel through the wilderness. So for us, it is as we yield our lives to the anointing of the Holy Spirit that is in us, yielding our wills to the will of God, allowing the Holy Spirit to renew our mind and thinking to the word of God that we can come to know what God's thoughts are for us and what His ways are for us to walk in, As Psalm 119:105 says; Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. So let us be encouraged, regardless of the situation that we are in, whether it be good or bad, we can know the mind of Christ in that place, we have the mind of Christ in us through His Spirit, let us learn to yield to Him, because it is only as we do this we can know what God's will and purpose is in that situation. Remember, His ways will always be higher than ours and His thoughts will always be higher than our thoughts, I know whose thoughts and ways I want to live by, how about you.?