“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

Are you smarter than God? Do you know more than the Lord God who created the heavens and earth and still preserves them?

You may say, “Of course not!” But why do you act as though you do?

Whenever people doubt and question what the Bible says, aren’t they doubting God? When people pick and choose what parts of the Bible they believe and what parts they don’t, aren’t they really saying they know better than God who gave us the Scriptures to teach us of Him, His will for us and what He has done to save us?

And when we disobey God’s commandments and set our own standards for what is right and wrong, aren’t we pretending to be smarter and wiser than God in determining what is good and best for us?

And what about us when we refuse to repent of our sinful and erring ways and look to Jesus and His cross in faith for mercy, forgiveness and life everlasting? Aren’t we really living and acting as though we know better than the God who loved us and sent His only-begotten Son into the world to suffer and die and make full atonement for our sins and the sins of all?

The fact is that we often live and act as though we are smarter than God, but the truth is that God is far smarter and wiser than we can begin to grasp! He knows what is good and right. He knows what is best for us. And, He calls upon each of us to repent of our sinful ways and look in faith to Jesus and His cross for pardon, forgiveness and life eternal!

God grant us the wisdom to believe and take Him at His word! Amen.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.