Look at that poor little thing. She’s darn near down to her birthday suit, which is not good for a chicken in winter. What’s wrong with her, you ask? She’s molting. Molting is when a chicken loses it’s feathers, ordinarily in early fall, in order to grow new feathers for winter. During molting they usually stop laying eggs (they’re currently not earning their keep) in order to store up nutrients for the winter. So it is December 4, and some of my gals are almost naked as a jaybird. They really are pathetic looking. It’s hard to watch them shivering and bracing against the December winds. We can usually see reason behind nature’s happenings. Some things we understand. A chicken loosing it’s feathers when they need them the most is not something I can comprehend. But of course, there are many things I cannot comprehend, believe it or not. Wink. Wink.
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
Well there you have it. His ways are not our ways. Plain and simple. Completely understandable. Afterall, He is God. His ways are higher than our ways. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Afterall, He is God. The God whose ways and thoughts are higher than ours invited the exiles to “come” and partake in the Lord’s salvation.
“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
Luke 1:34-35
The God whose ways and thoughts are higher than ours invites us exiles to “come” and partake in the Lord’s salvation in extraordinary ways we cannot comprehend, through the virgin birth of His Son. How can this be? After all, He is God.
Wednesday
Read Isaiah 55.
Thursday
What is the “everlasting covenant” found in Isaiah 55:3?
Friday
List the promises that God makes in Isaiah 55:10-13?
Saturday
Read Luke 1:26-38.
Sunday
List the promises that God makes in Luke 1:26-38.
Monday
Spend time in prayer praising and thanking God for His promises made in Isaiah 55 and Luke 1. Those promises resulted in our salvation.
Tuesday
Ponder – Knowing His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts, would we trust God if He called us to be Mary, if He called us to something we did not quite understand?