Our View vs. God's View

Isaiah 55: 8-9,  "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith 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." (KJV)

Each of us battle the problem that this passage identifies today.  We face the temptation to allow the perspective of our human thinking to override our confidence in the presence of God to meet our needs and direct our path.  I truly believe that satan can use the human thought process as a weapon against us.  Isn't satan's true purpose to overthrow our faith?  We may be strong enough to resist the temptation to give up completely yet his tactics can hinder our faith if we allow them to have free reign in our minds.  The enemy wants us to place our hopes, confidence, and trust in the things of man.  It is difficult for us to fully fathom the greatness of the things of God in comparison to the things of man.  But we must learn to turn our focus away from the ways and thoughts of man and look for the ways and thoughts of God.  The initial effort of the enemy may not cause us to look completely away from God but he does have a plan for our demise when he begins to sow the seeds of doubt, fear, insecurity, etc. in our hearts.  Satan may not cause us to have demonic or satanic thoughts BUT he does seek to influence our thought process.  Faith will call us to look at the ways of God versus the ways of man.  Faith will call us to look at the thoughts and plans of God versus the thoughts and plans of man.  Faith will cause us to look away from the strength and ability of man and look to the strength and ability of God.  Faith will call us to look away from the infidelity of man and look to the fidelity of God.  Each of us must remember that the ways and thoughts of God are HIGHER than our ways and thoughts.