My Thoughts, My Ways

Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV
“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 than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

It’s easy to say that God knows much better than we do what life, love, and righteousness is all about, but to allow Him into our thought life is difficult at best. We often think in our minds that we assess most things correctly. I have found lately that I may not be as smart as I thought I was.

I have found that my judgment on things that happen during my day take one of two roads. One high and one low. The low road seems to assess people, situations, occurrences and even random thoughts in a dim view, not looking for the positive only seeing the negative. Then of course there is the high road thoughts. This is where I see potential for growth in things, seeing wisdom that could make every situation better.

I tend to be a thinker and I am finding that if I am tracing and retracing matters in my mind, it leads to the low road. But if I allow God to guide my thoughts, I accept His reasoning and consider the matter a learning session to gain wisdom. My ways are not God’s ways, thank God for that, and my thoughts are not His thoughts, thank God!

So my judgment is biased, skewed, distorted by my thoughts. I can make snap judgments or ponder things too long, or I can simply commit it to God and let Him guide me. Yes, I am beginning to learn at my age, let God in the process. Better yet, since starting these devotionals years ago, I have realized I can compare my thoughts to God’s Word continously.

In that line of thought, whatever I think, whatever judgment I render, if I have God’s Word’s readily available in my mind, my thoughts and judgment tends to be more in line with God. But I will always, always have to take every thought and judgment to God, to get it right.

Prayer:
Lord, I trust in You with all my heart, help me not to lean on my own understanding. Guide me in all my ways to acknowledge You, to go to You, to seek You, and if I do, I know You will make my paths straight.