27/04/2026
April 26, 2026
SUNDAY CELEBRATION SERVICE
HIS WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN OUR WAYS
Isaiah 55:1 - 12
An attempt to understand, on what, the premise of God’s declaration is predicated, in the book of Isaiah, 'His thoughts higher than our thoughts, ways higher than our ways' in part we need to capture some analogies great thinkers have conceived over the history of humankind thinking about God.
Plato, looking at the majestic display of nature, associating it with contemporary artistry, saw the Demiurge (craftsmen). He saw unprecedented craftsmanship in creation.
His student, Aristotle, added to that thinking seeing the perfect order, how all things move in perfect sequence. They can't just move on their own. An unmoved mover is behind this breathtaking revelation.
Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, and others say, from what we see - like a long chain dropping from the skies, it can't just hang, there must be a pegg holding it in position. They came up with the philosophical construct of the 'uncaused cause.'
The great physicist of our time, Stephen Hawkins and other proponents of the Big Bang theory, which is regarded as the ultimate cause of existence, recanted in very soft claims when they admitted that from the wonders of nature it is inconceivable to end up with something so perfect, so orderly, that it can be a result of a random activity. A big reason, a great cause, a mind beyond comprehension yet personally accessible, stands behind all what we see.
Now, Isaiah 55 opens up with a transactional paradox of the divine grace, 'come by even without money, without cost.' Where on earth could that happen unless the owner of the retail outlet makes that invitation.
God proceeds to present a divine declaration of the existential and empirical GAP, 'thoughts higher than our thoughts ways higher than our ways.' He is the great wisdom, the great mind, the uncaused cause of everything conceivable in the created order.
Jesus ties this when He taught His disciples about prayer. The starting point,'Our Father'
1. When we pray, we spiritually enter the presence of the divine cause - what would be difficult to grant of Him who causes all things to become.
2. We align with the flow of the Word. The creator God called things from no existence into being. Can not the same God enter your own crossroads of nothingness, and divinely usher you into answered desires.
3. We accept, though, beyond description. His ways incomprehensibly beyond grasping, that He enters our world to grant every prayer presented to Him. You're because He is.
The Lord bless you!
