If you are going to walk with God and live by faith, then there is something you must settle with yourself once and for all. You must settle this fact and never allow it to be debated in your mind again, and that is Isa 55:8-9 which says, " For My (God's) thoughts are not your thoughts (did you know that God doesn't think like the world thinks?) nor are your ways My ways (settle this right now), 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 (settle it, before your eyes look at anything else, settle this Truth from God).
If you are going to live by faith, then you are going to live by a Higher standard, God's standard. Whenever you look at something or hear something you must understand that what you are hearing about a situation (H1N1 for example) or what you are looking at, this will always be saying something to you. It will be speaking the world's language and you will naturally want to think about it like the world thinks. But God has already told us in Rom 12:2 that the Believer must renew his mind to a super natural way of thinking, Why? So that we can think like God thinks, and if we will think like God thinks, then we will go and do what God does, and what is it that God does, well, just take a look at Jesus and you will see it loud and clear.
Whatever you or I think about a situation or circumstance that we find ourselves in, always know that God has a higher thought about it. You will find all of God's thoughts and what He thinks about anything and everything pertaining to this life you and I are living on this earth in His Word (2 Pet 1:3). If we will then think like God thinks and do it God's way, then we will receive what God thinks about it, instead of what we think about it. This is, "living by faith"
(Heb 10:38).
Here is an example of what I am sharing with you today. You go to the doctors and he diagnoses a health problem you are having and he gives you the report of his findings. He names the disease and tells you that you have 3 months to live and there is nothing else that can be done. If you act on that report and think along the same level as that report, then you will receive what that report is saying to you. BUT here is what God is saying, " who will believe MY report?"
(Isa 53:1) . First thing you must understand is that God's report is Higher than that doctor's report and here is what God's report says, " By His (Jesus') stripes you were healed (1 Pet 2:24), Jesus Himself took your infirmities and bore your sicknesses (Matt 8:17), all things are possible to him who believes (believes what? God's report!!) (Mark 9:23), you shall live and not die (Ps 118:17).
Now if you and I will step up to this Higher report and believe it instead of that lower report, then we will receive what the Higher report declares. Now I said you must BELIEVE it. Not just know it, but BELIEVE it. If you do, you will be living your life at that Higher place. That is the real "High Life". God has made a way for you and I to live there, but the choice is all ours. Choose this day, the High way or the low (the world's) way, His thoughts or our thoughts. His way is the way of life, the world's way is the way of death. I know which way I'm choosing, how about you? I'll see you on the HIGHway!!
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