Devotion 14

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD, “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9

God is far more complex than we are, and we cannot understand Him fully. There is an inevitable gap there, we can only glimpse a portion of what God is doing in our lives and in the lives of others.

However, God provides a means to bridge that gap in two ways: the Word of God and the Holy Spirit.

There are four things we should pray for as we study His Word: knowledge, wisdom, understanding and discernment. All starts with the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 1:7). The beginning of knowledge is knowing who God is and who we are in our relationship with Him. God is all-powerful and all-knowing; He is complete in Himself. Wisdom is His calling out to us to connect with Him. God desires that we seek to know Him, to discern truth, to walk with understanding!

These revelations through the scriptures will eventually become our second nature as we read, reflect and apply. They will help to change us into the kind of person God wants us to become, deep inside where it counts. Only God can do this.