Isaiah 55:6-9
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
In our daily life it feels like we can bounce between having all the time in the world to no time at all. There’s something in our brains that seems unwilling to do things in a reasonable timeframe. In this passage in Isaiah, the prophet is prevailing on us to act with a sense of urgency. He is saying God is here with us now. We don’t need to waste time trying to locate him because he is here and he’s found us.
Being found by God is something we need to allow to happen. We need to turn our hearts to the saving grace that is available to us. Too many people refuse this and say, “if it’s free I don’t want it, if I didn’t EARN it, I don’t deserve to have it.” We need to fight this attitude off with every thought. And we need to leave behind the people in our lives that would try to force this kind of thinking on us.
It is a mercy and a blessing that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. It is a mercy and a blessing that God’s ways are not our ways. God doesn’t think or act like we do. We are selfish, we can’t see the big picture, and that is why we are called to trust.
We are called to seek the truth of God.