Isaiah 55-56

 Scripture – Isaiah 55-56

Observation – 

• Isaiah 55:1-7 - An invitation to receive blessing
• Isaiah 55:1-2 - An invitation to be fed
• Isaiah 55:3-5 - An invitation to be led
• Isaiah 55:6-7 - An invitation to be forgiven
• Isaiah 55:8-13 - The glorious way of the LORD
• Isaiah 55:8-9 - A reminder of the difference between God and man
• Isaiah 55:10-11 - How the word of God works
• Isaiah 55:12-13 - The joy and the blessing of restoration
• Isaiah 56:1-8 - A promise for those outside Israel
• Isaiah 56:1-2 - A call to righteousness
• Isaiah 56:3-8 - A promise for the foreigner and the outcast
• Isaiah 56:9-12 - A promise to judge the blind leaders
• Isaiah 56:9 - A word to the beasts or false teachers
• Isaiah 56:10-11 - A word about the unfaithful leaders of Judah
• Isaiah 56:12 - A word from the unfaithful leaders of Judah

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.

These two verses remind me of how great and amazing God is, and how insignificant we are. I feel like in life, we have our own thoughts about different things that happen. We lose something or someone we love, and we immediately blame something or someone. Verse 8 reminds me that despite all that happens, God's ways are different and higher than my ways. His thoughts are higher than my thoughts. 

These two verse combine with Romans 8:28 which says that God works for the good of those who love him. So when I look and see things that upset me and don't go my way, I need to remember that God is working for me, even when my thoughts can't see it, because I know that his thoughts and ways are higher than mine.