I've often heard people paraphrase a Scripture from today's passage where God says, "My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your ways. My thoughts are higher than your thoughts and my ways are higher than your ways."
It's a good concept to remember, but until today, I didn't realize what came after those words. Take a look:
"I don't think the way you think.
The way you work isn't the way I work."
God's Decree.
"For as the sky soars high above earth,
so the way I work surpasses the way you work,
and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies
and don't go back until they've watered the earth,
Doing their work of making things grow and blossom,
producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,
So will the words that come out of my mouth
not come back empty-handed.
They'll do the work I sent them to do,
they'll complete the assignment I gave them..."
I think it's interesting that God followed His "my ways are higher than your ways" saying with a few proof points--His ways are higher than our ways (at least in part) because His words are never empty. What He says actually happens. God follows through on His promises. I love that.
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