“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares 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 55:8-9
How do your thoughts align with God’s? Do you think like God? Do you ever try?
In light of passages like the one above, is that a silly question?
Clearly, although we can know of God, His ways are often beyond human comprehension, and passages like Isaiah 55:8-9 seem to describe the timeless gap that exits between God and man. But what if it doesn’t? What if it is not a timeless truth, but a specific message delivered to a people characterized by a particular attitude (see v. 7)?
And what if there are other passages speaking to the issue of God’s mind and us? Passages like 1Corinthians 1-2?
In our next article, we’ll go there. Toward that end, see if you can identify the major points of Paul’s arguments in those two chapters.
In the process, some questions to answer —
- What are the two things keeping men from the wisdom of God?
- Can anyone know the wisdom of God?
- In what sense is the attitude described at the beginning of this post true?
- What enables us to move beyond those limitations?