Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said the LORD.… 1. The power of thought is one point in which man is made in the image of God. Other animated creatures which are put in subjection to the thinking, intelligent creature man, have no fellowship with God in thought; into His world of pure spirit they cannot enter. When men do not think, and especially when they do not think of the highest and most important matters, they degrade themselves from the true position and occupation of immortal minds. 2. In the text we have two persons thinking; and as the result — man's thoughts and God's thoughts. God's thinkings are declared by Himself to be exceedingly above man s, and yet if ever man is to dwell with God, he must think as God thinks. "How can two walk together except they be agreed?" What, then, can I do to rise to Him? Think as much as I please, thinking only sets me on my feet, and so far does me service, but it still leaves me on the earth, and God is yonder far above me, and my thoughts can no more attain unto Him than an infant can touch the stars with his finger. Still it is a comfort to me if I am sincerely thoughtful after God, that He is thinking about me, for if my thoughts cannot bear me up to Him, His thoughts can bring Him down to me, and when He has established a connection between the heaven which is above me and the. earth which is beneath Himself, then I, laying hold on His thoughts, and believing what He has thought out for his, shall be drawn up to His elevation, and I shall come to think His thoughts, and so to be in communion with the Most High. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.WEB: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh. |
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