Political ads are everywhere. You can’t turn around without seeing or hearing one politician or another blather on and on about something. As I listen, I often wonder to myself, “what are you thinking.” It doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you are on, or if you are in the middle, politicians spout ideas that often make no practical sense.
And while on the subject, have you ever watched the media press someone for a response (someone who doesn’t want to give a response)? They can ask the dumbest questions, often repeating over and over what other reporters have asked, or what the interviewee has already said they will not comment on. I wonder, “what are you thinking?”
Having railed on politicians and the media, I must now admit that there is another time when I wonder, “what are You thinking?” That’s when my God is talking, and I must admit that as He told Isaiah, we can’t really understand His ways or His thoughts. “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,’ says 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.’” [Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV]
God is God. He is perfect in wisdom, knowledge and holiness. He has perfect foreknowledge, knowing all that can be known. If I could understand His thoughts, or perceive His ways completely, He wouldn’t be any more intelligent than I am – and (said with a smile), we’d all be in big trouble.
It is precisely that we can’t understand Him that makes His thoughts and ways toward us all the more precious. He doesn’t operate on our finite level but is infinite in power and knowledge. So, while it may seem a bit silly to you, this morning I am so thankful that I don’t always understand my blessed LORD but lean on Him by faith through His grace. Amen.
