Believe Right!

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.” Beloved of God, beware of “men of God" who single out this verse from the whole of Isaiah 55, ignore the verses before and after it and totally distort its context. When you take the  text  out of its con text , you are left with a con. Many of us have heard this verse taught in the context of: “ God is not sinful, unrighteous and wicked and shady like you worthless sinners. His ways are not your ways and His thoughts are not your thoughts so go and change your ways to be like God.” The first sentence of the above misinterpretation is basically stating the obvious: no churchgoer needs to be reminded about the godliness/righteousness of God. He is God. This horrid and antichrist interpretation in italics above is no different from the lie that Satan conned Eve into believing in Eden- that man can be godly through human effort (arm of flesh) at doing something. See Isaiah 55:8 in it...

Believer, consider the backgrounds of four out of the five women mentioned in the genealogy of our Lord Jesus Christ as recorded by Matthew. The wives of the patriachs - Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, Rachel - are not mentioned. Of all the women of faith in Christ's genealogy, only Mary and four others with not so pristine backgrounds received mentions. Here are the four: The first woman was Tamar, Judah's daughter-in-law. She was the widow of two sons of Judah. When Judah withheld a third son (Shelah) from her, she posed as a  prostitute  and slept with Judah, her father-in-law. She deceived Judah. The act produced twins, one of whom was Perez, also in the genealogy of Jesus. See the account of Tamar’s action in Genesis 38. The second was Rahab, the  prostitute  of the red rope on the wall of Jericho who deceived her own people to help the Israelite spies escape. She also wasn't Jewish. The third was Ruth,  not her doing that she was  a  Moabitess , fro...

By God's grace, this chapter and the one following it is a must-read for all believers in Christ. Believer, Isaiah 53 and Isaiah 54 are all about the sufferings of Christ (for us) and the glories to follow- our reality in Christ today. God's prophets of old who prophesied about His Grace (Christ Himself) that was intended for us sought to know more about this salvation that we have in Christ today. 1 Peter 1 says of them: 10 "Regarding this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace [of God] that was intended for you, searched carefully and inquired [about this future way of salvation], 11 seeking to find out what person or what time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He foretold the sufferings of Christ and the glories [destined] to follow." Isaiah was one of such prophets. He prophesied about the sufferings of Christ (in Isaiah 53) and the glories that will follow (in Isaiah 53 & 54.) Isaiah 53 is where we get the popular ve...

For the believer in Christ, this "man living for 70 years is okay" orientation is neither God's decree nor His desire for you and I in Christ. It is the fate of man under God's wrath and anger (under the letter aka law that kills) as Moses wrote in Psalm 90- “7 For we have been consumed by Your  anger , And by Your  wrath  we are terrified. 8 You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. 9 For all our days have passed away in Your  wrath ; We finish our years like a sigh. 10 The days of our lives are  seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are  eighty years , Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of Your  anger ? For as the fear of You, so is Your  wrath .” The above is the life of man sandwiched between God's  wrath . It is the life of the man whose sins God remembers and who is facing God's ...