For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are…
My thoughts than your thoughts. —Isaiah 55:9
On earth
the words of a wise man often mean something different from what the hearer
understands them to mean. How natural, then, that the words of God, as He
understands them, mean something infinitely higher than we understand at first.
We must remember this, because it will cause us to search for the fuller
meaning of God’s Word as He meant it. It will give us confidence to hope that
there is fulfillment in life beyond our highest thoughts.
God’s
Word has two meanings. The one is the meaning that originated in the mind of
God, making human words the bearer of divine wisdom, power, and love. The other
is our partial, distorted understanding of God’s Word. Although such words
as the love of God, the grace of God, and the power of God may
seem very true and real to us, there is still an infinite fullness in the Word
that we have not yet known. How strikingly this is put in our text from
Isaiah: “As the heavens are higher than the earth.” Our faith in this
fact is so clear that no one would dream of trying with his little arms to
reach the sun or the stars. And now God says, “My thoughts [are
higher] than your thoughts.” Even when the Word has given us God’s
thoughts and our thoughts have tried to understand them, they still remain as
high above our thoughts as the heavens are higher than the earth.
God wants
to make His Word true in us. The Holy Spirit is already in us to reveal the
things of God. In answer to our humble prayer, God will give insight into the
mystery of God—our wonderful union and likeness to Christ, His living in us,
and our being as He was in this world.
If our
hearts thirst, a time may come when, by a special communication of His Spirit,
all our yearnings will be satisfied. Christ will take possession of the heart,
and what was of faith will now become an experience. Then we will realize
that, “as the heavens are higher than the earth,” His thoughts are
higher than our thoughts.
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