His Ways and His Thoughts

Psalm 105:16-25

I often turn to Isaiah 55:8-9 to remind me that anytime I step out of the authority of the Scriptures, I’m on dangerous ground.  Many a person worships a god of their making, such as Thomas Jefferson, who put together the Jefferson Bible that left out the miracles that Jesus, did.

All would be wise to read Isaiah 55:8-9 often; “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.  “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”  You want to show me a fool, show me a person who believes they have a full understanding of the ways of God.

God always is many, and I do mean many steps ahead of what is needed for the people of God, and this is just one account Joseph the younger big mouth favorite son of his father, sold into slavery.  Now remember he is just a young boy at the time this happens, and if you were Joseph, would you want to give up on God?

This is the account; “He called down famine on the land and destroyed all their supplies of food, and he sent a man before them—Joseph sold as a slave. They bruised his feet with shackles; his neck was put in irons, till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the Lord proved him true. The king sent and released him;
the ruler of peoples set him free.  He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed, to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elder's

wisdom.”  

If this boy had not believed God’s vision to him as just a boy in his father’s house, he would never have been picked by a Holy God who knows every thought before one enters your mind.  You may want to see that in Scripture, it is found in Psalm 139:4, “Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.”

We the people of the USA have been sold a myth that a college degree makes a person smart.  Once more parents would be wise to train up a child to have a fear of the Lord.  Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”  Then a young person would be capable of achieving success, out in this completive world.  Most would be better off spending that time learning a trade, and not taking courses from a God-hating professor whose goal is the same as his father the devil.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice