Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 55:8-9

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." — Isaiah 55:8-9 (ASV)

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.

Perhaps you are thinking that he cannot forgive you, that he cannot possibly mean that he will blot out your sins; but he does mean it, indeed, and he is willing to do it now. Oh, that you would come to your pardoning God, through Jesus Christ his dear Son!

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither 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.

I think, dear friends, that not only may the unconverted pick up many crumbs of comfort as they hear about the abundant provision of divine mercy, but that the tried people of God may also be much cheered as they consider the greatness of the Lord's plans for them.

You do not understand, tried child of God, what your Heavenly Father is doing with you. A child cannot always comprehend his father's purposes of love; it is not necessary that he should. Every father may say to his son, My thoughts are not your thoughts; but with what an emphasis does our Divine Father say it to us! As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.