Do you know what GOD thinks toward you?
The polled answer is a presumptuous yes in the majority, but the
Biblical answer is a definite no:
"For MY thoughts are
not your thoughts, ...
For as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are ... MY thoughts than your
thoughts." Are you
habitually accepting the thoughts of the LORD toward you; or do
make a habit of
correcting GOD? Most of us do just that, we read the
unambiguous, revealed mind of the LORD in HIS Word, and then
twist them to our line of fallen reason. We strain the very mind
of CHRIST until it becomes palatable to us. We seek to
pull HIM to our level rather than kneeling to ascend to HIS.
"Who shall ascend into heaven? (that
is, to bring CHRIST down from above:)". What
arrogance we project, fancying ourselves the arbiter of the
ALMIGHTY. "The
LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, ..."
The notion that we are not on a par with
GOD bothers the natural man greatly ... that HE knows your every
thought, and you know not HIS:
"But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, ..."
Do we not depict HIM as less than
competent to our world when we verbalize HIS goodness while
challenging HIS thoughts. FATHER is not a capricious term,
we are to trust HIM as a child does his parent; and it was HIS ONLY
BEGOTTEN WHO placed life and death emphasis on this:
"... Verily I say unto you, Except ye be
converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven." Are you an
insecure child, insistent on an explanation regarding every
thought of your FATHER? May the LORD give us grace to hold precious what
we know; and hold in humble awe what we don't.
GOD, through Jeremiah, went on to define
HIS mind toward us as holding:
"thoughts of
peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."
"How
precious also are THY thoughts unto me, O GOD! how great is the
sum of them!"