“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor
are your ways My ways,” says 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.” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV)
Doing things God’s way is always best.
When God’s people do not follow His ways, the consequences can be extremely
painful and discouraging. God promised the people of Israel joy and fulfillment
if they would live according to His ways, but their failure to follow Him
ultimately cost them everything. He said
to Israel: “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. But My people did not listen to Me;
Israel did not obey Me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow
their own plans.” (Psalm 81:10-12)
One of God’s most devastating acts of
discipline is when He allows us to experience the natural consequences of doing
things our way instead of His way.
-- Henry Blackaby, Richard Blackaby and Claude King in
“Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God”
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