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Finding the way

Exodus 33:13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you.

Deuteronomy 8:6 Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and revering him.

Isaiah 55:8  For my thoughts are not your thoughts,  neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

It is this last verse that always gets me to stop and think and pray.  As the President of CRISTA I am in the midst of leading a strategic planning process. We know that this comes in the middle of a big financial crisis around the world.  All you can really do is get the best people you have together to pray and plan for the future, figure in as many different scenarios as you can and commit the plans to the the Lord.  There are all kinds of templates to do this and many different experts offer their insights on how to do strategic plans. I think these are all important.  But then you throw in IS 55:8...  Help me with that one will you?

Posted: Oct 09 2008, 12:13 PM by bob.lonac | with 1 comment(s)

Comments

Karen Stoufer said:

Interesting that  you are reflecting on Isaiah 55:8 this week as TWICE this week my daily devotional by Richard & Henry Blackaby has used that verse for the daily thought-both Oct 4 and Oct 7 and it is unusual for his daily devotional to repeat itself like that. He lists some of the many ways we do not understand what God is doing or the why of suffering, etc. Then he offers the comfort of knowing that God knows the big picture. Then he says, "We should not try to reduce God's Word to a level that makes sense to us.  Rather, we should ask God to raise our thinking so we better understand His Word and gain His perspective on the world around us."

# October 11, 2008 8:38 AM