“Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.” Isaiah 55:6
Isaiah composed a beautiful invitation to come to God and experience His abundance. He explains God’s nature and why humans cannot understand Him.
I have taken excerpts from Isaiah chapter 55 in writing this narrative.
It is impossible to understand God with a human mind.
God says My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways.
God is perfect and without sin. And, He has no ego. This contrasts with a human being who is born with an inner condition to please self and defy God.
God goes on to explain “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.”
God operates in a spiritual realm and a set of laws that are contrary to the world. As believers, we live in the world but we are not of the world.
Isaiah uses an analogy about the weather to explain how God provides food for His people.
“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.”
The words of God come down from heaven and provide nourishment for believers. Isaiah says why spend your money for food or wine when you can have the bread of life.
Isaiah explains how God’s word is alive and powerful. “He says so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
The word of God will never return empty to heaven. God has engineered the Word to be sent through the Holy Spirit to touch all those people he has designated for the gift of salvation.
The word shall prosper in causing many to accept Jesus and become new creatures filled with Living Water.
Some will accept the word fully, some will hear but disregard, and some will be blind to the truths of God.
The question is how can a human being understand God’s thoughts and actions? It requires a lot of prayer, reading the Bible and listening for the voice of God. Most importantly, you must have a strong passion to walk by faith and obey God.
The Christ follower lives for Jesus and vigilantly seeks the will of God. He submits to the authority of the Holy Spirit who is sealed inside all believers.
Come to Jesus and your life will never be the same!
Hal Hollister Ministry 