Think. God Does.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says 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. Isaiah 55
John 8:12-37 (WEBM) Again, therefore, Yeshua spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”
Yeshua answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.
You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
It’s also written in your Torah that the testimony of two people is valid.
I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Yeshua answered, “You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
Yeshua spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Yeshua said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
The Judeans therefore said, “Will he kill himself, that he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”
He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Yeshua said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”
They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
Yeshua therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
Yeshua therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
They answered him, “We are Abraham’s seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
Yeshua answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
I know that you are Abraham’s seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
Isaiah 55:1-13 (WEBM) “Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says 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.
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
God knows how he thinks about us. But do we know how he thinks of us? And do we know how we think about God? Do we know how to think about God? Do we even know how we think or how to think?
Isaiah 26:3 (WEBM) You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
Hebrews 5:13-14 (WEBM) For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Jeremiah 15:16-21 (WEBM) Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, the LORD, God of Hosts.
I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.
I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
Evil is continually opposing good and trying to displace good. Every election is an opportunity to either resist the devil and watch him flee or to allow him to take over the house. Satan attempts home invasions in every election. Every election. Every choice! Everyday, even moment by moment we choose: * between God's goodness which will build us up into God's everlasting house and * the evil trying to destroy us. Not choosing is to lose by forfeit.
The devil would have us think we are in charge. We are not in charge. God is in charge and we need to trust him. Are we deceived to see God as an evil person or force oppressing us into submission? Or do we see Jesus who submitted to his Father, Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels? Do we see Jesus made sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God?
We live in perilous times. 2 Timothy chapter 3 was written almost 2000 years ago! A lot of us have been hit over the head with a 2x4 by Satan many times. The 2x4 he uses are his evil lies, his evil thoughts and most importantly his evil deceptions. It doesn't seem to hurt until we wake up. We, some of us, even many, are unwittingly addicted to his evil deceptions. As my friend said, "the deceived do not know they are deceived because they are deceived.." They are flesh intoxicated by the deceptions of Satan and the unsaved.
Hebrews 5:1-14 (WEBM) For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.
Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
So also Messiah didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”
As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
