God's word is your assurance

Wed, Jul 30th 2014, 11:23 PM

"My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither 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 55:8-9

The statement "a penny for your thoughts", was put to a young man seated on a park bench by a woman who had been jogging and was resting for a while. Suddenly the young man flashed a smile and said "Thank you, thank you". He began to tell the story of how he came to be sitting in the park. He was planning to spend his last day on Earth and was at a dark stage in his life.
As a youngster his mother brought him to this park, but she died and life was rough for him as he went from foster home to foster home. For him, life dealt him a heavy blow and he was not prepared to go any further. People didn't care. There was no love shown. Jobs were hard to find and money was scarce. Nobody really thought that much of him to even ask him a question, so where did this lady with a kind voice who sat next to him come from?
The statement "a penny for your thoughts" caused him to emerge from his thoughts of gloom and death into hope and gladness. He had met the wife he had long prayed for and was at the beginning of a brand new life chart.
Some people find the very concept of divine revelation difficult. They cannot come to accept that God discloses himself to mankind in so many strange and mysterious ways; but without divine revelation, we as human beings are like a boat drifting without a rudder in turbulent waters.
The vastness of the difference between the mind of God and the mind of man is indescribable; for mankind to strike a balance, he must acknowledge that almighty God is his creator and the creator of all that is on the Earth, in the Earth, above the Earth and beneath the Earth.
"My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says the almighty.
How many times in our lives do we think thoughts and do deeds that are contrary to the will of God. We smile, laugh and fraternize, but it is only from our lips and not from our hearts. We say things that people would like to hear but completely ignore and scorn their wishes and requests.
Consider God's thoughts. Can we discover his thoughts or read his mind? We can't even read each other's thoughts. Certainly someone saw James Holmes, the young man responsible for the Colorado massacre that night at the theater.
What if they were able to read his mind as he entered, or knew his thoughts as he purchased weapons? Going through high-powered body scanners at airports and elsewhere cannot bring on screen the thoughts of those who would pass through.
The global situation of tragedy by reason of mass killings, bombings, shelling, give true reason why we should cry out to God more for the cleansing and healing of cruel and wicked thoughts of those who have no remorse, shame or guilt. It moves them not one iota to see innocent children and defenseless women and men dead and soaked in their own blood.
How we pray that more than ever, God will reveal himself to us and speak to our hearts, so our souls could hear. Speak to our hearts, father. calm every doubt and fear. Help us to know that the enemy has not gotten the better part of us. You make plans for your children beyond their wildest imagination. Your mercies are new every day and so are your blessings.
We confess that your thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are our ways your ways. We acknowledge that as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are your ways higher than our ways and your thoughts than our thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall your word be that goes forth from your mouth, it shall not return to you empty.
Thank you father God for the blessed assurance of your word.
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