Freedom is Good News Part 190
/What is the depth of God’s heart? Wow, now that’s an interesting question. But it is one that must be considered; it is a depth that must be sounded. The problem is, we as finite human beings do not have the physical resources to understand the depths of an infinite God! What’s a person to do?
In our previous article we contemplated some of the decisions that God’s messengers have had to make (Noah, Abraham and Moses). Choices are, of course, set before us each and every day and we can make our decisions based on two separate points of view: a worldly perspective or a Godly perspective. We are very familiar with the world and its ways. Everywhere we look we see the physical world and its influences. Most times we take the easy way out and chose according to a worldly set of parameters.
But God’s ways, His thoughts, His parameters are deeper and more difficult. I am reminder of the old saying concerning decisions: Is it right or is it easier? Unfortunately in this age many just take the easy way and not the right way.
How do we start to make choices according to a Godly perspective? It begins by knowing God’s ways and His thoughts! But someone might quote the book of Isaiah to me, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither 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.” (Isaiah 55:8) Oh yes, there’s the challenge!! But we do not have to know God in all of His being, in all of His thoughts and in all of His ways - He has given to us a manual of instruction to find and understand the WAY. You and I know it as the Bible and it is a set of instructions concerning all that God wants us to know today.
In our previous article we did talk about Noah, Abraham and Moses and the choices they were given to make. God laid out before them an opportunity, yes, even a challenge to obey His words. Abraham had a tremendously difficult decision set before him; Genesis puts it this way, “After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here am I. God said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” (Gen. 22) But if we know the bible, we realize that Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness. He chose to act according to a Godly point of view. He went to Moriah with Isaac. Isaac lived and Abraham received a strong and beautiful message from God.
So what has God put before you in your walk? It can’t be as great a choice as Abraham dealt with. But maybe God is working with you. Maybe He is asking you to choose between two ways of life. Maybe it is time to come to our Father and His Son and to seek out His ways and His thoughts in His word. Here is a great place to start whether you’re brand new to His word or have been reading it for years and somehow are not inspired, “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” (Psalm 103:11-12) And that is a long, long way!!