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, for
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!"