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What is God thinking? When ever I have a thought like that I quickly realize His thoughts are way beyond my thoughts. As it says in Isaiah 55:8 and 9:

Isaiah 55:8 and 9:
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.

After reading these verses I am quickly humbled realizing I am not even in the same league as God! It is self daunting to say the least.

But these words are not said to deflate me to feel like dirt, but really they are given to demonstrate that God is not limited to man’s level of thinking. God is very rich in grace and mercy. He desires for us to rise up to believe His thoughts, His words, so we can walk with deliverance and fullness of understanding.

The context here in Isaiah is not to put us down, but to communicate to us that He will lift us up with His loving thoughts.

As we read the previous verses to get the context of what is written here in Isaiah, let’s remember as born again ones we are sons of God, made righteous in Christ. We are not “wicked” and “unrighteous.”

Isaiah 55:6 and 7:
Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near;
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

If God will abundantly pardon the wicked and unrighteous, what about sons of God that fall short from time to time? Yes, He will pardon them big time! Why? Because God the Father does not think like man does. His ways are higher. He will prosper the believing hearer.

Isaiah 55: 10 and 11:
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Our expectations from God’s Word should be one of great blessing.

Jeremiah 29:11-13:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Then shall ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you.
And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart.

Let’s rise up in our thinking, knowing that God’s thoughts toward us are ones of mercy, peace and a desire to see His people prospering.

- Bob Lindfelt

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