Mind-Blowing!

Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. 

The thoughts and ways of God are so much higher, they makes our thoughts and ways look like one those of a one cell amoeba which hasn’t yet evolved into what its future state of being.

What’s really mind-blowing is, though we act like the amoeba, we are created in the image of God! When He blew His breath of life into each of us, we became able to THINK, able to PLAN, able to CHOOSE our action/reaction, able to DO, and able to BE related and in relationship with our Creator and our peers.

Notice I said able. Ready and willing and doing happen throughout all the days of our life.

Genesis 1: 27-28 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Then God stepped back and left us to our own devices.

NOT!

The Lord God planted a garden, and there He placed the man whom He formed, and commanded Him to cultivate and keep it (Genesis 2:8-15). Our of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; the man gave names to all…(Genesis 2:19-20) There was not found (in all the creatures made and named) a suitable helper (companion/peer) for Adam so the Lord God fashioned a woman from the rib taken from the man, and brought her to the man, and WHOA, the man was completely smitten by this creature that was his equal – “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh” (Genesis 2:21-23).

THEN God stepped away and left us to do the heavy lifting of gardening and managing our earth.

NOPE!

Up until they “forgot” what God had spoken to them and did their own thing (Genesis 3:1-7), both of them knew and walked with Him in the garden, in the cool of the day without fear or shame. Genesis 3:9 then the Lord called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

It wasn’t God who left man to fend for themselves, it was man/woman who hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God – “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” (Genesis 3:10)

Ok, NOW God turns His back on us!

NO! NO! NO!

Though He does call them out… Genesis 3:11 “Who told you that you were naked?”… Have you eaten from the tree I commanded you not to eat? (Of course you have or you wouldn’t KNOW what naked means, which in the realm of knowing good and evil means you are no longer covered with the perfection of God and completely innocent of evil’s touch.)

And He puts into place His plan to PROTECT us from the touch of eternal evil… CLOTHE our nakedness with the temporary coverings… and REDEEM us from the fruit of the sin planted in souls. (Genesis and the rest of the Story… HIS story… The Word of God)

What is really MIND BLOWING… Not only did God not walk away and let us believe He never existed (Atheism) or turn His back so we think He is not aware or interested in our world (Agnosticism) or allow us to be eternally damned (Hopeless) by the wages of sin.

Romans 8:37-39 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Not only NOT SEPARATED… but LOVED

1 John 3:1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 

I Do Not have the mind of God… You Do Not have the mind of God… We are not and can not BE GOD!

My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways…  My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts

But WOWZA!

Jeremiah 31:33 “But this is the covenant which I will make…” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 

You can have Him within and and His thoughts and ways written on your heart!

Walk with Him in the cool of the day… hear for yourself from God, Himself…

1 John 3:1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. 

Run to Daddy… Cry out to Abba to show you how to… Wrestle with Father/Brother/Helper in training for preparing to go in the way you should go…

Ephesians 3:14-19 Let us bow our knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge; that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

I dare you… let God tell you HIS thoughts and HIS ways… guaranteed HE WILL! (Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.)

Guaranteed to blow your mind!

**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.