ISAIAH 55:8-9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My
thoughts than your thoughts.”
A young boy at the dinner table asked, “Dad, is God everywhere?” “Yes,” his father assured him,
“God is everywhere.” “Is He in this room?” the boy wanted to know. “Of course,” his father said. “If
God is everywhere, then He is in this room.” Eyeing the sugar bowl on the table, the boy continued,
“Well, is God in that sugar bowl?” “Yes,” his father replied, “if God is everywhere, I guess we’d have
to say that He’s even in the sugar bowl.” Reaching for the lid, the boy quickly slipped it over the bowl.
“Gotcha’, God!” he said.
The Israelites also wanted a “sugar bowl” god, someone they could control. Isaiah rebuked them for
cutting down a tree and using part of it to warm themselves and with the rest making it “into a god, his
carved image. He falls down before it and worships it, prays to it and says, ‘Deliver me, for you are
my god!'” (44:17). Israel wanted a god who could be contained in their temples and manipulated by
their worship–but the God Isaiah had seen (6:1) was not that kind of a God.
How wonderful to know that the real God is so much greater than anything we can imagine or create.
His ways and even His thoughts are so far beyond our finite minds that we can’t begin to comprehend
Him. When we come to Him with our problems and our difficulties, we never have to worry about
whether He’s big enough to handle them.
Don’t try to put God in a sugar bowl. You won’t be successful, for He is an awesome God. Rejoice
that though you may not be able to understand Him, you will always be able to trust Him.
GOD WILL BE GOD REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE DO!