Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)
“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.
Isaiah 55 is such a powerful passage of scripture chock full of wisdom and promises towards us if we just believe.
I am led to concentrate on verses 8 and 9 because it feels like the crux of everything else in the passage. It clearly tells us that God’s ways are Not Our ways, how He thinks is more far reaching than the way we do and for me that simply means that, He knows what is best…period. His advice is always the best.
In verse 2 He says
“Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Isn’t that what we do here in the world? We misconstrue what is most important to us. Yes the physical body needs “bread/food” and we have to labor to provide ourselves the comforts. but, what is more important to us as a spiritual being… our bread should be the word of God and everything from Him that we do not need money to buy. Our satisfaction comes from knowing Him and relying on His ways and His thoughts to guide us. So we no longer feel the need to be going after more and more and more… as in the saying “the rich man is never satisfied”.
Isaiah 55 is an invitation to us who are thirsty, to us who are at the end of our rope, not knowing where else to go. It is a open welcome to a better existence filled with great promises that symbolises who we are as people created in our Father’s image. If this all seems far-fetched to you let me remind you what verse 11 says:
“…so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it”.
God cannot lie, we need to look within ourselves and identify what is preventing God’s promises from manifesting in our life. Just as it was said then to the believers in Israel so it is for us today. What does Jacob, Abraham, Esther,Ruth, Joseph or David (to name a few) have that we didn’t? Perhaps herein lies the answer.
I encourage you to read Isaiah 55. Allow it to wash over your mind, begin to believe in what your Father says. A new year is approaching, perhaps you can consider entering a season of renewal and preparation, one where you seek the answers and ask for that which you need to make a new beginning in your life.
Believe on the words of your Father in Heaven, He cannot lie. Believe Him. Trust Him.
Lots of Love & Light in the Spirit.
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