Isaiah 40:21-31
God is God
21 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
25 “To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
27 Why do you complain, Jacob?
Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
my cause is disregarded by my God”?
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 55:6-9
God's Thoughts are Not Our Thoughts
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “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.
God is God...And to me He seems silent so much of the time...Why can't He contact and communicate with us more?...If God is near us, then why doesn't He make it more apparent...Why doesn't He make Himself closer to me and to others who want to feel Him, and want to feel His Presence?...Why can't He think more like us, so He can make these things happen?...
We have our own ideas, thoughts, and ways that we think that will make us happy... So He seems to abandon us and be silent around us on many of our ideas, thoughts, and ways...He often leaves us alone on our personal crusades that are more toward the earthly kingdom than those crusades which are toward His Kingdom...So He remains silent as we do what we want to do and delays some of our other plans...And then He watches as we race down our own personal paths to happiness and He lets them go by the wayside...The Prophet Isaiah seems to tell us, that we do know Him and we are to trust Him...We are to await in a Sacred Hope...God's thoughts are not our thoughts...And God's ways are not our ways...
Pastor Craig Barnes says this about God, "God is often silent when we prefer that He speak and He interrupts us when we prefer that He stay silent...His ways are not our ways...To live with the Sacred God of creation means that we conduct our lives with a God who does not explain Himself to us...It means that we worship a God who is often mysterious - too mysterious to fit our formulas for better living...It means that God is not our best friend our secret lover or our good-luck charm...He is God."...