‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says 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 (NKJV)
The above is a very profound statement from the Lord Himself. God says His thoughts and His ways are far higher than ours. Notice it doesn’t say that our ways are not good. Neither does it say that our ways cannot produce some results. What it does say is that God’s ways are not man’s ways. God’s ways are higher, more superior, more effective, more productive than man’s ways. Man’s ways have limitations. God’s ways have no boundaries and they always produce results.
I believe the ways of God referred to here speak of God’s methods. How He does what He does or how He will do what He says He will do. For example when God asked Abraham to go and sacrifice his son Isaac, he did not know how God will provide an alternate sacrifice. Joseph did not know how God would make his dreams a reality. The children of Israel could not have figured out how God will lead them out of captivity. The disciples did not know how five loaves and 2 fishes could feed over five thousand people etc etc.
So what does this mean to you and I? We must not trouble our minds trying to work out how God will do His work in our lives. Don’t try to figure out how He will do what He has promised. What should we do? Focus on His word and believe that His word will surely be fulfilled. Isaiah 55: 10-11 goes on to say that God’s Word shall not return to Him void. It shall accomplish whatever it’s been sent to do. Hallelujah!
This is good news. This should be sufficient for us. We may not know how He will do it, indeed we don’t need to know how He’ll do it, but we are confident that He will do it. We need to just focus on what He says for it shall be fulfilled. Wow! That’s faith! Focusing on the word and believing that it will surely come to pass.
Trying to figure out how God will do it can be an unproductive exercise. It can easily send you down the unbelief route.
In John 6:7-9, Phillip tried to figure out how much money would be sufficient to buy enough food to feed the thousands, and Andrew wondered how five loaves and two small fishes could feed the multitude. Guess what? They needn’t have concerned themselves about how. They should have just believed that Jesus was able to do all things. There is nothing, absolutely nothing too difficult for Him. With God all things are possible. Amen!
What is that thing that God has promised in His Word. Don’t worry about how it will manifest. Believe the Word. Hold onto it and you shall surely see the manifestation. Praise God!
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