God Thoughts

After a worshipful Sunday do you have the Monday spiritual let-down? You know, you can hear from God even on Monday mornings! Let's listen in to what he's saying in Isaiah 55:8-13 today. You can read this through twice in a minute. But no need to rush. What is God speaking to your heart through this text? Again, there is so much paced in these few short verses! Here is what I'm focused in on . . .

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. . . . So is my word that goes out form my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. (v. 9, 11).

How much I need God's thoughts in my head! My own thoughts tend to take me to the wrong places, how about you? That is because they come from my fallen human nature. Funny how I sometimes find myself expecting God to think like me! If I'm not careful I am capable of projecting myself and my ideas onto God, as if he is basically just a super-human me. My own feelings can become the standard by which I discern right from wrong and good from evil. If it's okay with me, surely it must be okay with God....right?

When I'm feeling cynical, depressed, hopeless, inferior, inadequate or generally discontent I can be sure that it is my own thoughts that are forming my emotions. The same is true when I'm feeling superior, judgmental, unaccountable, envious, ungrateful, apathetic, spiteful or malicious, or even inappropriately lustful. God's thoughts don't lead me there.

God's thoughts take me to much greener pastures. They fill me with peace about the past, gratitude about the present, and confident hope for the future. God's thoughts lead me to serve others, to care about the injustices in the world enough to do something about them. They inspire me to see myself as he sees me, to feel loved and honored and cared for. God's thoughts lead me into God's ways, which are also so much higher than my own.

That's why I need God's Word (read the verses above again). God's Word expresses God's thoughts. When I meditate on God's Word it puts God-thougths in my mind. God promises here that his Word will accomplish what he intends for it to. It is effective and powerful! It's like refreshing rain on the parched earth of my soul. It elevates me from earth-bound thinking and wordly ways to a much higher plane of thinking and doing.

I love to take in the amazing thoughts and ideas of the infinitely holy God! I soak them in and let them saturate my mind. That's what my devotional time, my journaling time is all about. And sharing that experience with you, encouraging you to reap the same rewards is why I take the time to publish this blog.

Good for you to take time to drink in God's life-giving thoughts!  You will be blessed today because of it.

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