“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8
I have a confession. The greatest obstacle to my spiritual growth and victory is applying man’s carnal nature to God’s Holy character. I think of grace as I do my checkbook. I was given a beginning balance and someday I will run out. I think of good and bad balancing, and act as though God has been so good for so long, I’m due for a walk on the dark side. Finally, I think that God has a hidden agenda and is setting me up for great hope, only to let me down, just to keep me in my place. I continuously play mind games with faith and goodness. It’s exhausting to say the least and it’s a wrong behavior, that has the power to wreck my fellowship and relationship with my Savior. Okay, confession over, devotional begins.
Isaiah had an encounter with God when He was called. Everything Isaiah spoke to a rebellious people was colored with this face to Face moment. He knew God! Chapter 55 begins with an invitation to the bounty of God’s blessing for all. It isn’t about our worthiness, it is about God’s willingness.
God is Good! He is not devious, He does not plan evil, He writes a perfect peace. Superimposing man’s instinct of selfishness onto God completely invalidates Him. Man’s ways are not God’s ways. The ancient children of Israel must have struggled with this too or Isaiah wouldn’t have been sent to correct the error. Come to the table, rest, refresh, refuel and respond. You are invited and it is GOOD!
Love,
Gretchen