Empty Me

Isaiah 55:8—“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.

Anyone besides me know this to be true? Sure, we've experienced that reality multiple times in multiple ways. His ways are not our ways but they are right and good and the perfect design for us.

Experience affirms for us that things don't always go as we might hope or dream, and yet in spite of that reality, He can do exceedingly abundantly more than we can hope or dream (Eph 3:20) according to His power at work in us.

In reality, we are limited in sight and knowledge; we have known and unknown shortcomings ~ selfishness, vain ambitions, pride, things our hearts hold on to that are never meant to be ~ as the song says "Lord, empty me of me so I can be filled with You."


When we allow Him to fill us, we can believe. Abraham and Sarah as well as others proved God's faithfulness by putting their faith in His promises. In Genesis 15, we read that God took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Mark Batterson profoundly affirms, "Faith is not logical, but faith isn’t illogical either. Faith is theological. It just adds God into the equation so that what we’re able to imagine isn’t just determined by our human ability. " Abraham grasped reality (they were old), but he was also completely confident that God persistently performs His promises.

F.B. Myer declares, “Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God. Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.”

Wonder why God took Abraham outside? So, He could see God and not be trapped by a tent ceiling. So, Abraham could experience the promise, the nearness of God in the midst of the circumstance. I wonder, how ofter do we trap God by ceilings or boxes we create?

The reality is we can trust every promise to us; we can place God between us and any circumstance knowing that He is faithful even though His ways are not our ways.

Embracing the journey...