Thank you for praying. Both flights homebound this morning were on time! And I have arrived safely. Now, the delayed Lesson …

“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.” Isaiah 55:8-9

Our God is omniscient, that is “all knowing.”

And He has never had a bad thought, nothing sinful or erroneous in any way. Yet His Reasoning is so DIFFERENT than ours!

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12

So … if I am going to really walk with God (“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” Amos 3:3) … I MUST learn how He thinks, best as possible anyway.

By the way, God’s Word (the Bible) is a Revelation of God’s Thoughts! Hence the necessity of mastering the Scripture!

God, according to today’s Text, thinks on a “higher plane” that we do.

Notice here also how one’s “thoughts” direct one’s ways! (The Text first mentions “thoughts,” then secondly, “ways.)

Wow!

So, to be the best student of God’s thoughts that I can … I must do two things.

First … realize the weakness and fallacy in our human (sinful) patterns of thinking. We are very often wrong, living in these fleshly bodies. With our fallen minds. This is why God tells us to “lean NOT to thine own understanding!” Proverbs 3:5

This is why our minds need to be “renewed.” Romans 12:2, “transformed” thought patterns!

Then secondly … study especially God’s very Word(s) in the Bible! Paul the Apostle even went so far to say that (in the Bible) we actually possess “the Mind of Christ!” 1 Corinthians 2:16

Also … think of the Word(s) of God in the Book of Job!

Then … think of God preaching a Sermon, a long one. And it’s in print yet today. The “Sermon on the Mount,” Matthew chapters 5-7, Jesus being the Speaker, God the Only-Begotten Son!

God’s Word reveals God’s Thoughts!

The Greek noun for the Bible, for God’s “WORD” … is “logos.” It gives us our English word “LOGIC!” Orderly, systematic, sequenced Thoughts!

Wow!

It takes a bit of humility (maybe a lot) to believe Isaiah 55:8-9. In fact, God plainly there says … “so are My Ways HIGHER than your ways, and my Thoughts than your thoughts.”

I close with a prayer.

Oh dear Lord Jesus, help us to so humble ourselves, to so discipline ourselves, to so educate (?) ourselves … to “think God’s Thoughts after Him.”

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!” Psalm 139:17

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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