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When God allows sorrow and pain to enter the lives of His beloved children, it is because His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. As God’s children today, we can also claim this verse, knowing that God’s thoughts toward each of us are on a higher plane than our own. God was reminding His children that He can see around corners and into a future that they could not see. His thoughts toward them were higher than they could imagine, and they had to put their faith in His promises, even while enduring His discipline (2 Kings 21:14 Jeremiah 29:14). He encouraged them not to give up or think that the Lord had abandoned them. plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” In this verse, God promised that the Israelites, exiled in Babylon, would one day return to their homeland. In Jeremiah 29:11 God expresses some of His higher thoughts toward Israel: “For I know the plans I have for you. That’s why we have to trust His character when we don’t understand. Lost in our lowly thoughts, we cannot fathom the higher plan of God. He sees the whole picture we see only the frame. We cannot know how God’s work in our lives will impact ourselves and countless others. We may not see our struggles as leading to anything good because we can’t see into the future. When God promises that “all things work together for the good to them who love God and are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28), His definition of good may not match ours. Our thoughts are limited His are unlimited and unsearchable. Our thoughts are earthly His are heavenly. His thoughts are always on the big picture. But when our thoughts are centered on mundane matters, we miss what God wants to show us. We live in a material world, so our natural focus is primarily on our physical needs. We are wise when we bow to that knowledge rather than demand that He do things our way. As an infinite Being with infinite wisdom, God knows and understands things we cannot comprehend. Likewise, the Lord loves, guides, protects, and provides for us in ways we don’t understand. A loving parent does things for a child that the child doesn’t understand. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (verses 8–9). He then says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. In a beautiful passage in Isaiah 55, the Lord cries out to Israel to return to Him and reminds them that only He can supply what they need.
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