‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,’
declares the Lord.
9 ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

I heard about a Christian preacher who said he felt he heard the Lord say to him one day, ‘Bob, you and I are incompatible, so one of us is going to have to change; but it’s not going to be me!!’

‘Have you ever tried to explain the grace of God to an unsaved person who thinks that heaven is a ”Hall of Fame” for achievers instead of the Father’s house for believers? In this world, you work for what you get, and you are suspicious of anything that is free.’ Warren Wiersbe: Old Testament Commentary’, p.1196.

We don’t get far in the Christian life before discovering that there is, naturally speaking, an unbridgeable gulf between God’s mind and ours.

Yet God has closed gap through the gift of revelation:

  • He has revealed Himself in His written Word, the Scriptures;
  • He has finally and fully revealed Himself in the Person of the living Word, Jesus (who lies at the heart of the written Word).

Yes, although God’s ”thoughts” and ”ways” are ”higher” than ours, His Word has ”come down from heaven”(10) to reach us where we are. More about this tomorrow.