Reading
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.
Commentary
It
is very comforting to know God's ways and thoughts are higher than our
own. The Lord here speaks in such a way
so that we will be comforted though we are often confused in this world. We don't understand why this or that happened
in our own life, and we cannot make "good" of this
"evil." If God loves us, why
does He allow us to suffer so, whether by persecution, sickness or disease, sudden
tragedy, tyrants in authority, etc. Yet
when we view this world through the lens of the cross, namely the grace and
love of God given to us through the suffering and death of Christ, we surely
see (and how can we not) God knows what He is doing! Thus let us not give in to the devil's
temptation, that God is distant or unattached to us: the willingness of Christ
to suffer all things for us proves quite the opposite. Indeed if only we believe in His free gift to
us of salvation, surely we can see by faith "all things work together for
good to them that love God." Even
our imperfect love is forgiven through His blood, hence let us trust in God's
wisdom, remembering we are yet the apple of His eye, dear to His heart, "bought
with a price."
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