It is a strange thing; the way God works. He spoke through Isaiah that we wouldn't believe it if He told us about His ways for they are so much higher than ours....even including our thoughts.
By the time Jesus steps up to deliver his inaugural address at the Mount he immediately begins with seeming defiance to man's muscle and mind. Blessed are the poor in spirit....wait a minute! We gathered to hear how we are going to make it. We don't need some young squirt speaking in riddles. We want answers, man....give us answers.
And he proceeded to speak promoting mourn-ism and the value of persecutions. Some kind of nut? Or, some of that "higher thinking" Isaiah prophesied?
We've read the book and we win. We see his points. They baffle; yet we do our best to line up with him. So we would not think it odd, huh, to realize that to have our spirits truly lifted up we would need to confess how far we have sunk. Only God could make that scheme work....for good.
I spoke at a seminar in Arkansas this weekend. It left me sad and glad. Sad that I am not any further down the road in maturity than I am. Glad God works among us anyway. We will do progressively well when we can grow in realizing he (as a human) had it figured when he said, Apart from the Father I can do nothing.
To really lift the spirit of man one will consistently find the creativity of God and not the intellect of man is what works for both.
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