Our Ways vs. God's Ways (Isaiah 55:8-9)

“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)

Why can’t we change others, even our children? That’s the law of God. God is in charge of changing and transforming each individual according to His time schedule. Sometimes it looks so obvious that we can fix the problem in our children. But the more we try to fix quickly, being convinced that it is the right thing to do, the more we are frustrated and wearied because it simply doesn’t work. Why is it so complicated and complex to fix the problems in humanity? For example, we cannot deny the existence of bitter sweetness in the families. It is so good for families to be together, but then there are also disagreements and disharmonies in them. If they exist in the families, they are everywhere people live.

We all are created in God’s image from the beginning. That means we are made by God the Creator who knows what He is doing. The amazing statement of Jesus Christ when He called the disciples is, “I will make you fisher of men.” Don’t miss the subject of the sentence is Jesus Christ that He will change and transform the mundane ordinary people like Peter, John, and James into the children of light, the men God intended men to be even before the time began. Paul asserts it in the letter to the Philippians, “…being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 1:6 NKJV) The Creator God is in charge, say the scriptures.

Therefore, we can endure our children, families, friends, and all people, especially the believers in Christ, let alone non-believers. Everyone in Christ is in progress according to the time schedule of God. It seems very slow and nothing happening, but that’s the way it is. We must not forget the fact that God is still in the longsuffering for ourselves first whenever we are compelled to fix others. Jesus calls such a people who are always ready to fix someone else as hypocrites, although He doesn’t cancel out fixing others. We are told to first look into ourselves and see how much God is patient and longsuffering for us.

“And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3-5 NKJV)