Our Humble Thought Exchange.

As you awaken this Sunday morning, I pray that your heart looks up and waits in the cool freshness of the morning for “. . . more of His fullness.” Whether at church, online, over coffee at the breakfast table, or just alone with your thoughts. Let your thoughts be open to His thoughts.

I want to draw us back to Isaiah 55. God, in calling us to seek Him, make known to us how wonderfully rewarded we will be when we give our whole attention to His loving heart. As you review this next section, we learn how inadequate our thoughts are compared to His:

Isaiah 55:7-11.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. 8"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," declares the Lord. 9"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

Notice how our thoughts directly affect our ways, that is, our values, actions, behaviors, desires, pursuits, and direction in life. I heard one brother refer to this as “stinkin’ thinkin’!” Paul comments, “And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.” 1 Corinthians 8:2-3 NKJV.

Paul directly tells us to forsake that way of thinking that conforms us to the world: Romans 12:2. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. He knows that our worldly thoughts can get us way off track of spiritual reality.

Here is the hope of more of His fullness: God has thoughts higher than ours, and His way are perfect. The Spirit then connects God’s thoughts and His ways to His Word. What God thinks and determines He speak into reality. His thoughts can be known through His Word, forever standing as true and inevitably unfolding. And we can know His thoughts if we receive His Word.

Jesus corrected the Satanic temptation to look for life in stones turned into physical food: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4)

Every word! That is where we look for life. God’s higher thoughts are in His inspired Word. It is there for us to explore, not just with our minds, but with our spirits open to His Spirit. The more He speaks His word directly to our heart, the more of His fullness we can experience.