Different Things God is teaching Me

Higher than Our Ways

"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

There are many things we can learn from this passage, and one of them being that God is not like us. Our emotions rise and fall, they have highs and lows, they go forward and backward. How fitting that God makes Himself our Divine Bridegroom and Husband, He as our steadfast refuge and rock, and we as His Bride whose heart/walk is often run and guided by the emotions and we often do not know what we want and truly need.
God's ways are not our ways. His emotions are not like our emotions. Unlike our mortal emotions that constantly toss and turn, second-guess, doubt, struggle, and feels shame, God (who fashioned pure emotion, not fallen or impaired emotion), His emotions are steady, firm, without struggle, enduring, and has no shame. We cannot comprehend how our God does not live by the same rule of emotions and conflicts that we feel each day; we can't comprehend how He does not stumble when we stumble; feel shame when we feel shame; or struggle when we struggle. He assures us: His thoughts & ways are not our thoughts & ways but rather that they are higher than our's. When a friend forsakes us, we would reject him or her, yet God's way is higher for He says "Seek Me while I may be found...return to me and I will abundantly pardon." (Isaiah 55:6-7) Truly, "if we are faithless, He REMAINS faithful; He cannot deny Himself." (2 Timothy 2:13) Wake up one morning and find a change or multiple changes to your world and feel uncertainty and the lack of peace, then turn your eyes to His Word and see that He is the Rock unchanged (Isaiah 51:1, Malachi 3:6). Though you are moved and have stumbled, He remains steadfast and unyielding; a Redeemer on stand-by, ready to lift you up. (Psalm 37:23-24) Though you sin seven times a day against Him, He is there ready to accept your confession-repentance every one of those seven times, and to forgive you.
This is who our God is. His emotions and the condition of God's heart is unlike the condition of our fallen, weak hearts and our fickle emotions. The God we serve is beautifully mysterious and wonderfully beyond our comprehension.