God’s Thoughts
In Isaiah 55:8 we find these words: “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,’ Says the Lord.”
Throughout the Bible we find verses as well as the principle of God’s thoughts and ways. We understand by what we read that there is a great and chasmic difference between what God knows and comprehends and what humans know and comprehend. As the theologians have told us, God is omnipotent, or all-powerful, and omniscient, or all-knowing. There is nothing He cannot do, and there is nothing He does not know. That is one of the great mysteries we find in the Bible and the study of God.
He is not limited in any manner as to how wise He is and how much He knows. Paul, in Romans 11:33 brings this out when he says, “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!” We cannot fathom the depth of His wisdom and knowledge, which should awe us to the point of humility, and should cause us to stand in adoration of Him! We are so limited in what we know. We are limited in what we can understand, not only of things of this world, which ultimately point back to God, but we are limited in what we understand of the God who created us!
But the wonderful thing about all this is that God, in all of His exalted state and in all of His magnificence and glory and power and knowledge, is willing to stoop low enough to think about you and me. And His is willing to do think about us, not just in passing, not just for a little bit, but a whole lot. David, the shepherd king, realized that when he wrote, found in Psalm 40:5 & 17, “Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered…But I am poor and needy; het the Lord thinks upon me.”
Jeremiah picks up the truth of God thinking about us when he writes, in Jeremiah 29:11, “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Because we are human and because there is so much we do not know and comprehend, we sometimes fall victim to the idea that maybe God doesn’t really have our best interest in mind. Things are working out very good and situations are not to pleasant, so we are tempted to think that God doesn’t seem to care. But rest assured, God is thinking about us. And His thoughts are far above our thoughts. Pastor Jack Hayford said this, “We all face situations where we are tempted to think that God has abandoned us or no longer cares. But rest assured that His thoughts toward us are innumerable, and they are filled with blessing, hope, peace, love and purpose.” We can stand on that!