Samuel D. High
sdhigh@aristotle.net
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From: "Apostle Tom" <pressingon@hotmail.com>
Sent: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:44:10 -0500
To: pressingon@hotmail.com
Subject: Morning Manna (June 17); BP: Is. 55; RBTTY: Acts 3; Neh. 7-9
June 17 “His Way or None”
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts; neither 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
If we are to be His followers, we must let Him lead.
How easily it is to get sidetracked from what is important and end up
spending our time and energies pursuing those things that won’t matter in
eternity. Likewise, how quickly we get into heated and divisive debates
over this-and-than when our time would be better spent following our Lord’s
“Guidebook” (His Holy Word).
No wonder we grieve His Holy Spirit with our carnal thoughts, words and
deeds! We profess to be “People of the Book,” yet are too often Biblically
illiterate. We profess to be followers of Christ, yet love singing “I did
it my way.” God help us all!!
Until we reach the place individually and corporately where we honestly
can say, “His thoughts are not my thoughts,” we’ll be prone to proud
illusions of “I know what’s best and it doesn’t matter what He says.”
Likewise, until we realize and repent of self-centered, “win-at-all-costs”
endeavors, we’ll constantly find ourselves in opposition to God Himself and
a disrupter of fellowship with other believers.
Oh, dear Pilgrim, our Lord’s thoughts are Heavenly; ours are earthly.
Our Lord’s ways are lofty; ours are lowly. By birth we are the children of
the “First Adam” and will act accordingly; however, when we’re born again,
we become one with the “Second Adam” and His nature begins to manifest
itself in our lives each day as we yield to His Lordship (Rom. 5:12-21; I
Cor. 15:21—22, 42-50).
That’s why we should not MEMORIZE God’s Word; we should INCARNATE
it—i.e., like Jesus become so immersed in His Word that it’s an integral
part of all we say and do.
Instead of coming up with a wild, hair-brained idea, we “chew the cud”
on it. . . pray over it. . .and ask, “Lord, is this Your will?” Instead of
allowing our tongue to be loose on both ends while flopping in the middle,
we “bridle our tongues” (James 3:1-12). . . think before we speak. . .and
seek to apply Spurgeon’s “Three Tests of the Tongue” before speaking: 1.
“Is it true?” 2. “Is it necessary?” 3. “Is it kind?”
Ever-remembering “His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are
not our ways” will keep us from snap decisions and hasty actions. Likewise,
remembering “His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than
our thoughts” will keep us on the “strait-and-narrow,” instead of walking
the wide Road of Destruction (Mt. 7:13-14).
Dear Pilgrim, are you “walking in the Spirit” today or living
“according to the flesh” (Rom. 8:1)? Are you a “peacemaker” or a
“trouble-maker” (Prov. 6:17-19; Mt. 5:9)? In essence, who’s on the throne
of your heart—the Lord Jesus. . .or you?
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