Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
Have you
ever imagined everything you thought you wanted, actually come to life?
Exactly… in reality, people tend to realize the hard way that we are not in
control of our lives. I can’t tell you the amount of times I have planned
certain tasks in the day, and it goes either a portion or the complete opposite
of what I expected it to happen. There are reasons for how things turn out in our
lives, it can either be one of three things. 1. Satan 2. Our careless
actions or 3. By the Lord’s hands.
For those
who know Jesus personally we always have to put Him first to receive the proper
guidance, and not trying to handle things through our flesh. For as it is noted
from Isaiah 55:8, our thoughts and ways are not like the Lord’s ways and
thoughts. How are we properly guided? Well, number 1, you must have a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ by confessing of your sins and accepting Jesus
as your personal savior. Then, we keep in close contact with Him, by reading
and living by His word (The bible), and praying continually to Him, then He
will do the rest.
I have
learned over time as a Christian, that no matter how many times I have tried to
handle things on my own, it never went the way expected, because the Lord
sought different and had a better plan for me. I look back now and smile, to
know that where things didn’t quite make sense in that time, it makes perfect
sense now, and I am happy that things turned out the way they did. If any of you have not watched the movie “GODS
NOT DEAD” please be warned *Spoiler alert*. Here is a perfect example for my discussion
today….
For those
who have seen the movie, the Professor of a Philosophy class had placed a task for all of his students to
do before starting the class, and that task was to write on paper that (GOD is
DEAD), each student had wrote the statement, except for one (a Christian teen);
He refused to and when questioned by the professor, he said he couldn’t for the
statement was not true. This movie was a movie that tested faith, and a
confirmation of the Lord’s works in place in each person’s life; for Christians
seeking guidance in the Lord’s work, and for those who are far from the Lord’s
loving arms. This young teen was challenged by the professor to fight for the
faith of God, and prove that God is NOT Dead. The young teen’s faith had grown
throughout the movie regardless of others trying to cause doubt. In his
discovery he had learned that the professor who denied the Lord’s existence,
knew in fact that the Lord existed, but blamed the Lord since a little child,
for his mother’s death (caused by cancer) who was a faithful Christian woman.
The young teen went on to say things happen for a reason and that we can’t
explain events at the moment; for the Lord knows. Through thorough research and
prayer, the young teen was able to successfully win the case of God’s existence
as well as win his fellow peers in the classroom. The professor was torn by the
repetitive truth he grew up to know, and at the end he was struck by a car that
led to his death, but before he died he was companied by a reverend who was
there at the right moment (orchestrated by the Lord). In that time the
professor had recited the scripture Isaiah 55:8, for he knew God was in
control. By help from the reverend, He asked the Lord for forgiveness and
accepted Him in his heart before peacefully passing away.
As a
Christian living in this wicked world, there are times where your faith will be
tested, but by perseverance in reading the Lord’s word, and trusting in Him
only, we shall receive knowledge and understanding through our ordeals in life.
Whether or not we understand the events that take place and what comes before
us, we know that as the scripture noted above says that, for His thoughts are not our thoughts, nor
His ways are our ways. No matter if it makes sense to us at the moment just
know that the Lord is always in control in all matters.
1 Chronicles 29:11 “Thine, O Lord, is the greatness,
and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is
in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou
art exalted as head above all.”
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