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Isaiah 55:8-11
Excerpted from: Faith (Part One)

In Isaiah 55, God—through Isaiah—helps us to understand that when we use human models for God, we are cutting ourselves short here.

Another place it says that God is not a man that He should lie. When we put this together with what we have just read in Isaiah, God and man do not essentially think the same. God does not lie, man does lie. Man's essential nature according to Jeremiah 17:9 is "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked" because our real spiritual father, up until the time of conversion, is Satan the Devil and he is a liar. And, as Jesus said in John 8, we want to do the things that our father does, not like Abraham did. So God can very confidently and truly say that His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are so much higher than our thoughts there is no comparison. His thoughts on what a father is like are so much higher, so much grander, that we do not even have the eloquence to be able to describe it. It is almost something like maybe we have to "mystically" feel.

We also find from our own experience that there is a great deal of fickleness involved in our thinking. First we go this way, and then we go that way. But there is no fickleness at all with God. That is what these verses tell us. What He sets out to do, that gets done. Even as the rain and snow come, and they do not return to Him in the heavens, as we might say, until after they have done what He sent them out to do, and that is to water the earth so that it brings forth fruits that we might be able to eat.

Now remember this. He is giving us this as an illustration that His word always—always, always, always—accomplishes what He sends it forth to do.

Isaiah 55:8-11
Excerpted from: What Is the Work?

Unfortunately, we come into the church with these same kinds of motivations about doing things. It does not work the same way with God. We cannot apply the impulse concepts of Americanism and our culture to God and His way of doing things. I will tell you why; it tells me in Isaiah 55:8:

We do not think as God does, yet it is His aim that we do think as He does. That is His very purpose. We have a collision of thinking processes. When I look at God's purpose and when I look in God's Word, we are talking about huge, immense spans of time, are we not? So much so that the Bible describes our entire life being as nothing more than a moment in time. We are like the grass of the field: it springs up, and the first thing you know it withers and dies. In the same way, a span of 70 years or 120 years passes just like nothing; and we seem to go from the scene.

Articles
Celebrating Birthdays
Fully Accepting God's Sovereignty (Part Two)
How Much Does God Love Us? (Part One)
How Much Does God Love Us? (Part Two)
Living By Faith and God's Sovereignty
No Private Interpretation
Sin, Christians, and the Fear of God  (2)
The Sovereignty of God: Introduction
The Sovereignty of God: Part Eight
The Sovereignty of God: Part Nine
What Is Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?   (2)

Bible Studies
Pagan Holidays
The Miracles of Jesus Christ: Water Into Wine (Part Two)

Essays
As a Man Thinks
Expanding Government
March 12, 2005: One Year Later
The Unique Greatness of Our God (Part One)

Sermons
God's Special Presence and Direct Intervention
Camouflage and Salvation
As A Man Thinks
Meditation
Answered Prayer Through Faith
Matthew (Part Two)
Purpose-Driven Churches (Part 2)
Sin And Overcoming (Part 1): If Anyone Sins!
Conduct of the New Life
Facing Times of Stress: Contentment
Pure Language Restored
Fully Accepting God's Sovereignty (Part 2)
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part One)
God Will Understand
Genesis 3:16: Consequences for Eve
Don't Give Up!
High Thoughts
Resistance (Part Two): Solutions
Is God's Inspiration of the Bible Imperfect?
God Works In Marvelous Ways (Part Four)
The W's and H's of Meditation (Part Three)
Our Part in the Sanctification Process (Part Seven): Cultivating Goodness
The Incomprehensibility of Our Great God
Intimacy with Christ (Part 2)
When Will God Answer?
Avoiding Detrimental Assumptions
Love and Works
Conscience (Part 2)
The Laborers: Matthew 20:1-16
John 3:16: Does God Really Love the World?
The Sovereignty of God (Part One)
How Big Is God?
The Sovereignty of God (Part 11)
Benefits of the Third Resurrection
Philippians (Part Seven)
Intimacy with Christ (Part 2)
Habakkuk
The Handwriting Is on the Wall (1997)
The Christian and the World (Part 5)
The Holiness Code
Holiness of God (Part 4)
Bible Difficulties by Design
What Does God Really Want? (Part 5)
God's Rest (Part 1)
Simplifying Life (Part Four)

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