Study in Isaiah 55

Isaiah 55:8-9, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher that your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."

 

Here is a quote from Streams in the Desert that my mom sent to me this morning, I read this after I read Isaiah and it fits perfectly:

 

There's a simplicity about God in working out His plans, yet a resourcefulness equal to any difficulty, and an unswerving faithfulness to His trusting child, and an unforgetting steadiness in holding to His purpose. Through a fellow-prisoner, then a dream, He lifts Joseph from a prison to a premiership. And the length of stay in the prison prevents dizziness in the premier. It's safe to trust God's methods and to go by His clock.
--S. D. Gordon

 

Difficulty is the very atmosphere of miracle -- it is miracle in its first stage. If it is to be a great miracle, the condition is not difficulty but impossibility.

 

There are so many times when I question if God really knows what He is doing. Of course He does, duh!! But why is it so hard for me to understand? Because He is God and I am not!!  

 

Job 12:13 With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His.

Col 2:3 In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Rom 11:33 Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways!

 

I have to remember that even when things don't go my way, that doesn't mean God made a mistake. He is in control and I just need to seek Him while He may be found and call upon Him (vs 6).