Higher Thoughts

"I don't think the way you think.
The way you work isn't the way I work."
God's Decree.
"For as the sky soars high above earth,
so the way I work surpasses the way you work,
and the way I think is beyond the way you think."
Isaiah 55:8-9 The Message
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this verse really hit home for me today. i love the way the Message phrases things - very bluntly - and this is something that needs to be very real to us as Christians. i'm pretty sure that most of us (i hope not just me!) have a tendency to think that we know what is best for ourselves, or at least what we want, when it really isn't what God has planned for us at all. now, i also know that i'm pretty good at convincing myself that something is God when, in all reality, it's just another attempt at getting what i want or think i need. (i don't know, maybe i think that after a while i'll convince God, too...). in the midst of all this convincing, however, we don't exactly see it that way. that's the thing about it - when we're in the middle of getting what we want, it doesn't take a lot of convincing because it seems natural and right (i'm pretty "convinced" that the enemy can get us good in our subconcious). it's when we fall flat on our face and we simply don't get what we want that our wake-up call comes and we realize that we actually don't have a clue what we're doing. i say all of that to say that God makes it very clear and simple for us. He knows better. i think at some point we have to learn that the hard way...at least some of us do. maybe we have to fall on our faces a couple of times to remind us not to run too far ahead because He's still the One Who taught us how to walk. and i think maybe He allows it to happen, even if it hurts for a second, because the lesson can only be real when we're the ones to get hurt. but He knows it's worth it for us to learn.