“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “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
Last weekend, my family and a few friends made our first pilgrimage of 2022 to the State Fair of Texas. We got our Fletcher’s corny dogs, we took our obligatory selfies in front of Big Tex, and we checked out a few cool trucks (a new Ford Maverick for me, a monster truck for the kids.) But the highlight was something none of us had ever experienced before: a ride on the Texas Star.
For the uninitiated, the Texas Star is a giant blue Ferris wheel that towers more than 200 feet over Fair Park. Every October, hundreds of fair visitors hop into its cramped gondolas for a couple of cycles. What they are treated to is a drastically different view of Fair Park than the one they have on the ground—from the top of the Texas Star, you can see everything.
Scripture tells us that our perspective is as different from God’s as the view from the ground is to the top of the Texas Star. We like to think we know everything, that nothing is beyond our ability to comprehend. Our pride compels us to believe no mystery of the universe is unsolvable. But the truth is that the almighty God, who was and is and is to come, is on a completely different level than we mere mortals. His thoughts are not our thoughts, says the prophet, and neither are his ways our ways. Where we are limited, God is omnipotent.
Part
of the work of humility is recognizing that all we have to work with is a
ground-level view of life. For more than that, we must look to the one who can
see everything.
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