Hooking on to the Infinite

UV 1026-10,000 Hooking On to the Infinite 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 v 9 The difference between the ways and thoughts of God and that of us is infinite. His ways and thoughts are beyond knowing by man and beyond the realm of our intellect, perception and study. Yet He has promised that He would reveal Himself if anyone seeks Him with all his heart. Nobody is able to estimate how high are the heavens above the earth. In similar vein, nobody is able to gauge the extent of God’s knowledge, wisdom, power, holiness, love and mercy. While some of us are sometimes able to discern the feelings of people from their faces, God is able to understand our inner thoughts, fears and motives. While we are constantly thinking of what we can gain, the Lord is thinking of what He can give. While we are thinking of how small we are, He sees and knows our potential in the light of eternity. While we are thinking in terms of the constraints of our limited resources, He is thinking in terms of possibilities and abundance. We can plan short term or long term or for a lifetime but the Lord plans for all of eternity. While we are afraid and baulk at difficulties, death and other consequences, the Lord is undaunted. While we remember past wrongs with bitterness, He forgives and forgets. While we need a lot to accomplish a little, He needs only a little or nothing to accomplish a lot. A little achieved can cause our minds to swell with pride for example, John Lenon boasting that he was more popular than Jesus Christ using the talent God had given him. While our knowledge and wisdom are mismatched, the Lord is equally great in both knowledge and wisdom. The thoughts, words and ways of the best of us are miserable while His thoughts, words and deeds are awesome. His purpose and His methods are different. The thoughts, feelings and actions of the greatest or most mature of us are like those of a child vis a vis the Father in heaven. At the height of our lives, we are vulnerable and weak while the Lord is Almighty and all powerful. The practical implication of this uni-verse is that in everything we think, speak and do, we need to ask and seek what is the Lord thinking, speaking and doing about it? We need to sync our lives with Him with the help of the Holy Spirit. We need to depend less and less on the quicksand of our own thoughts, words and actions and increase our dependence on the Lord. The question arises that if God and man are so different, then how can we relate to Him, how can we connect with Him, how can we understand Him? It might increase our sense of awe and reverence but how do we bond with such a Person? The Lord has revealed His thoughts, words and deeds through His Word. The Lord has revealed Himself through the person and mind of Christ. When we integrate our lives with Christ by faith, when we saturate our minds with His Word, our thoughts and ways get elevated to the very level of the Lord Himself. We become imitators of Christ and God Himself. We are reflections of the Lord’s glory in a darkened world. We are transformed into His image,degree by degree, day by day, thought by thought, word by word and way by way. Prateep V Philip