November 26th, 2020
Brave Devotional Series - Week 7 – Reflections – Pastor Mark White
God is so much more!
Isaiah 55:9 (NIV)
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
God isn’t just a better version of the best version of us. God is so much more. Are you ever tempted to humanize God to make Him more comfortable to understand? I have been guilty of trying to reduce God to a human level as I tried to comprehend His ways.
However, that is a mistake. As a whole, we have gradually minimized the very essence of God. We continue to lose the wonder of a wonderful God and the awe of an awesome God. He is beyond comparison and description. True wisdom begins once we comprehend that no-one can ever understand God’s awe! Proverbs 9:10 says, “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.”
Realizing the Awe, He is worthy of, opens our hearts to receive His wisdom.
We tend to expect God to think the same way we think. We assume He will solve problems using the same reasoning we do. However, Jeremiah says that God’s ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours. He sees the past, present, and future of a universe full of people He loves. God is working all things for good for those who love Him, according to Romans 8:28. There are countless moving pieces on this planet, and somehow He keeps perfect track of every single one of them. All while drawing each of us to Himself.
The circumstances of this world exist interwoven in a way that only a perfect God could accomplish. It is a relief that He thinks differently than us. Would you want God to believe in the same limited, self-centered, inconsistent ways that we do? No? Neither would I.
Let us remember that God is God and that we are not. Let us never forget the awe and wonder that is due to His name. He is more than we realize, more than we give Him credit for, and more than we can ever comprehend. God is so much more!
God is so much more!
Isaiah 55:9 (NIV)
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
God isn’t just a better version of the best version of us. God is so much more. Are you ever tempted to humanize God to make Him more comfortable to understand? I have been guilty of trying to reduce God to a human level as I tried to comprehend His ways.
However, that is a mistake. As a whole, we have gradually minimized the very essence of God. We continue to lose the wonder of a wonderful God and the awe of an awesome God. He is beyond comparison and description. True wisdom begins once we comprehend that no-one can ever understand God’s awe! Proverbs 9:10 says, “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.”
Realizing the Awe, He is worthy of, opens our hearts to receive His wisdom.
We tend to expect God to think the same way we think. We assume He will solve problems using the same reasoning we do. However, Jeremiah says that God’s ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours. He sees the past, present, and future of a universe full of people He loves. God is working all things for good for those who love Him, according to Romans 8:28. There are countless moving pieces on this planet, and somehow He keeps perfect track of every single one of them. All while drawing each of us to Himself.
The circumstances of this world exist interwoven in a way that only a perfect God could accomplish. It is a relief that He thinks differently than us. Would you want God to believe in the same limited, self-centered, inconsistent ways that we do? No? Neither would I.
Let us remember that God is God and that we are not. Let us never forget the awe and wonder that is due to His name. He is more than we realize, more than we give Him credit for, and more than we can ever comprehend. God is so much more!
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