For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. – Isaiah 55:9
Have you ever taken a hot-air balloon ride? Above the trees and hills, you get a different view of farmlands, animals in a field, or children playing outdoor games. What is your view from an airplane as you crisscross the country? The things below are less discernable. Agricultural fields become a patchwork, and you might see from one end of a large lake to the other. You have seen the views from the International Space Station. Oceans and mountains, deserts and continents of ice, just flatten into one vista. Then recall the view of Earth the astronauts had when they orbited the moon. One described what he saw as a big blue marble.
What comes to your mind when you think about the sovereignty of God? One thought might be to realize that God has a big-picture view of everything. At the same time, He also sees the microbes that dwell in your bloodstream and keeps count of the hairs on your head. And He is moving through the macro and micro universe to accomplish His purposes. What are His purposes? C.S. Lewis put it this way: “This is God’s ultimate purpose — to recreate this fallen world and to bring about a new heaven and new earth. He is redeeming a people for Himself, with whom He will dwell and with whom He will share His own glory.”
What is there for you to do? To fall at His feet and worship Him, to be a vessel He can use, and to align your perspective and your purposes with His. Give thanks that you can know such an awesome God. Pray that others would recognize that God is in control of it all and turn their lives to Him in faith and obedience.
Today’s Verse: Isaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: Ephesians 2:1-10
2 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
