Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today's Reading: Isaiah 55:1-9 Daily Lectionary: Deuteronomy 28:1-22; Matthew 18:1-20 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. (Isaiah 55:8) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. These words of Isaiah are often quoted when something disastrous happens that we were not expecting. As if We would never cause an earthquake or a baby to die, but things like this happen, so we often think God has something else up His sleeve. But these words of the prophet mean much more than just "God does stuff we don't understand." They mean that His whole way of dealing with us is just unthinkable and unfathomable because He doesn't give us what we deserve. When bad things happen, the Old Adam can only conclude that God is out to get us. Pay us back. Punish us. What the Old Adam doesn't understand is that everything that happens is given by God to drive us to Christ, who saves us without any of our own effort or merit or worthiness. God's ways are not our ways because He brings us into His