Week 28 Isaiah 55
The Lord says something here that’s a concern for a bible-reader:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The Lord is functioning on a different level from me when it comes to how he thinks & what he thinks. And what he does & how he does it
The way Isaiah frames it makes it seem like a dead-end street. So – fortunately for me – he adds a couple of hopeful things to show the situation isn’t completely static. For instance:
Listen, and I will tell you where to get food that is good for your soul
Come to me with your ears wide open
Seek the Lord while you can find him
So even though I’m clearly operating at a big deficit it’s not a totally & impossibly big one. That’s a relief.
Anyway today this seemed like useful bible-reader information.
I read the bible so I can know and understand.
Sometimes it works out that I’m rewarded with knowing & understanding (although it’s usually fractional).
Other times I seem to get to no destination at all. And at those times Isaiah’s explanation is a help: you’re not getting it because – face the facts – you’re not built to get it. Knowing isn’t part of your constitution’s capacity. You don’t get it because you can’t get it.
Note: quotes from Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV) & 55:2 3 6 (NLT)