I recall a presentation I would give about how great and awesome God is. My object lesson is the comparison of the size of the sun with the size of the earth, and their relative distance from each other. Then, I’d show them some photos of the constellation Orion, tell them about the size of Betelgeuse, and then the Milky Way, and then other galaxies and the Milky Way in relation to the other galaxies. After that presentation, my audience will already be in awe about how huge the universe and all creation is, and how tiny the earth is.
It’s a good object lesson about God’s greatness. It is He who created all of this universe from nothing, and He who has seen to it that all the planets and stars and constellations behave according to His design and His law. Proverbs 9:10 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” Indeed, knowing this truth about what God has created puts God in His proper place relative to ourselves. It’s a healthy way to appreciate how amazing His grace is that He would care for us, individually, and wholly.
But that’s not the main point of my post. Today, a verse that I was reading provided another way to apply this truth. Isaiah 55:9 NIV says
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
I mean, talk about “iba ang iniisip ko” (I was thinking of another thing). Or the expression, “that’s farthest from my mind”. Isaiah describes how FAR God’s thoughts are from our thoughts. And he uses the object lesson of the constellations in that way.
And it’s not that God has other things in His mind. Yes and no. He certainly has many many other things in His mind. But the size of His mind, Wow!! His brain must be HUMONGOUS! Imagine all that computing capacity!!!! Imagine that wisdom!! Imagine that depth and breadth of knowledge. Nothing comes close! Indeed, there is no god like my God. Yet He thinks of me. Constantly.
Next time I try to impute my tiny mind and my tiny thoughts and assume God is on the same wavelength as mine, and I wonder why He doesn’t seem to see things my way, or that I have a suggestion for Him to deal with my situation, and when I pray I actually tell Him what He should be doing, thinking that I know more than He — I just need to look up and see how high the heavens, and the heavens above the heavens, are from the earth, and know that God has me in His mind, and that He knows everything, and He can do anything, and that everything that He does is good.
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