God's Ways
I often think of the hijacking of Isaiah 55:8 “My thoughts are not like your thoughts, says the Lord...” All of my life this phrase has been used to explain away the unloving actions of “our god.” In response to any difficult question regarding the conflicting nature of the Christ and a wrathful god.
Why would god create people just to send them to everlasting torment? “His ways are not our ways.”
According to this false gospel, human beings were given weak hearts that if allowed to be possessing of the true image of god they would not quiver at the suffering of a fellow person. Is that really what Isaiah meant?
Absolutely not.
Isaiah 55 continues “For as heaven is higher than earth, my ways are higher than your ways.” God provides rain to water the seeds which grow trees to bare fruit. That fruit is free, it is available to the poor and rich alike. Denying any one person the bounty of God's provision is exactly the opposite of God's ways. This is the way of man, the false god of our time, food is only provided for the wealthy, those who have worked hard and earned it, those who have the false god's blessing.
Isaiah's god, the God of the wilderness gives unceasingly. God provides to the pure and wicked alike, despite the wicked's attempt to control the methods.
When a human being finds their true nature, God anoints them with oil! When a human being shares a loaf of bread, God provides endless yeast! When a human being loves to the fullest of their ability, God loves even more!