His thoughts and His ways

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘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
Man was created in the image of God: as a trinity – spirit, soul, and body. In the beginning, Adam’s spirit was uppermost in his life, allowing him to commune with God. But at the Fall, this reversed, and the trinity became body, then soul, then spirit. Unregenerate man is little different from the animals (Eccl. 3:18). They are driven by their bodily instincts: the need for food, drink, shelter, warmth, and procreation. There are also the soulish desires: the desire to be accepted, noticed, and loved.
God’s ways are higher than all of these. His ways are according to the Spirit: desiring fellowship, communion, and love, but not as the soulish desires which are driven by ‘what’s in it for me’. Living according to the Spirit – which we can now do, if we are born again – is to live on a higher plane. We give and love without expecting anything in return – just as God blesses us and loves us. Unsaved people can’t understand this. But this is the way it is with God (1 Cor. 2:14). His thoughts and His ways are higher than ours.