My Thoughts Aren't God's Thoughts
This summer I'm reading the Beth Moore Bible study called Living Free. Today's blog is an excerpt from her study on page 14. It is such a good reminder that my thoughts aren't God's thoughts and visa versa:
A precious friend came through a time of disobedience, conviction, and repentance. She experienced both genuine brokenness and satanic accusation. After many weeks of deep depression she told me: "I thought I couldn't come to God with this sin in my life. I thought I had to get myself out of the situation before God would have anything to do with me. I didn't feel that He could love me because of what I had done."...She fell for the fundamental belief of all pharisees--that God's love is based on our performance. On the contrary, God most wants us to come into His presence in the middle of our times of defeat.
We continue to believe that God loves conditionally. We cannot believe He operates differently than we do...Isaiah 55:8 tells us we do not resemble God in our thoughts and ways...Human intuition points us to what just seems right, but the things of God are seldom intuitive. In fact, often you would be better to figure out what comes naturally and then do the opposite.
A precious friend came through a time of disobedience, conviction, and repentance. She experienced both genuine brokenness and satanic accusation. After many weeks of deep depression she told me: "I thought I couldn't come to God with this sin in my life. I thought I had to get myself out of the situation before God would have anything to do with me. I didn't feel that He could love me because of what I had done."...She fell for the fundamental belief of all pharisees--that God's love is based on our performance. On the contrary, God most wants us to come into His presence in the middle of our times of defeat.
We continue to believe that God loves conditionally. We cannot believe He operates differently than we do...Isaiah 55:8 tells us we do not resemble God in our thoughts and ways...Human intuition points us to what just seems right, but the things of God are seldom intuitive. In fact, often you would be better to figure out what comes naturally and then do the opposite.
This delicate flower grows on a thick woody stem. I saw it at a roadside cafe near the Dead Sea, Israel.
Isaiah 55:8 "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord.
So this is what I've been doing wrong!! Love this blog and our thoughts definately are not His thoughts...praise the Lord.
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