The Thoughts and Ways of God

UV 515/10,000 The Thoughts and Ways of God Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. God’s perspective is eternal while ours is temporal, confined to the limits of what we know and have experienced. His ways, meaning His mercy, His faithfulness, His grace and His justice are higher than the stars in outer space. His thoughts of wisdom are deeper than the deepest ocean. His love is multi-dimensional and scripture describes its length, breadth, height as being vast beyond measure. No scientist or intellectual or wise man will ever be able to fathom the depth of His wisdom or understand the extent of His love. We cannot therefore fully understand Him. His thoughts and ways are not only beyond the comprehension of the best minds that ever existed but it is also beyond our individual and collective imagination and consciousness. Yet, despite the unfathomableness of His mercy, love, power, grace, justice and wisdom, He has invested an iota of all of that in each of us. It is present in each of us in mustard-seed or tiny proportions that we can expand to understand, comprehend and experience the infinite goodness of God. What is present in relative and varying degree in each of us is present in absolute and infinite degree in Him. Though we cannot fully understand Him, we can relate personally and intimately with Him more than we can with each other. Apart from the spirit of God that He has breathed into our very nostrils, He has revealed His ways and thoughts in scripture. We learn that though He is vastly different from us, He is like us in some ways. He feels pain and pleasure, sadness and joy though not in the same way we do or for the same stimuli or causes. He enjoys the company of people and relates to people as we do. He trusts us just as we trust friends and colleagues. He uses words to communicate just as we do though that is not the only way He communicates. Prateep V Philip