Bro. John:
I’ve been thinking a lot about your Pearl from a few weeks ago:
“It doesn’t matter how cold their (children of God who have fallen away) hearts are, it matters how warm God’s heart is.” Oh, how encouraging! Then the Lord reminded me of these verses this morning in Isaiah 55: 8-9:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
So good! Just made me realize that whatever I am thinking right now about anything, His thoughts are higher! I love that!
And then in Jeremiah 29:11:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
These verses speak of God’s warm heart towards His children. His thoughts and ways are not just “higher” because He is God (though that would be reason enough) but His “higher” is full of righteousness and holiness, sprinkled with His mercy, grace, and love, and His overwhelming goodness! He wants us to have that expected end that ends with Him!
I have just feasted on these thoughts today. How good God is and how He wants good for His children.
Sandy 🙂