Thoughts for another day

Aug. 26, 2009

Today's verse: Amos 3:3. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Today’s verse is a question aimed at our common sense. It says that if two are not agreed principally in one ‘commonness’, then they cannot walk together. Which means that if they aren’t agreed, they cannot have a common pool of thought from which they can both gather and nourish each other? And that my friend is also pertinent when it concerns God and us.

Look at it this way, God and we cannot be together if we don’t principally belong to the same thought pattern. And in this case it has to be the pattern of God because God knows all. He knows the beginning from the end and each deep thought we may have and so therefore it is important we peg our lives to His ways and share His thoughts even as we walk with Him, so that we can be nourished and fed by Him. Sometimes, we may thump our ideas on God and want to have our own ways. God being what He is, compassionate and longsuffering, allows our ways for a while; of course it doesn’t mean He changes to accommodate our limited and erroneous thinking, but that He gives us enough leeway so we understand our fallacious ways and then trudge back to Him.

Eventually, we learn that He is right and we walk according to His ways. But while all that is happening, we wonder why we weren’t with Him initially itself rather than learn and then agree and walk with Him. The difference between humans walking together and God and us walking together is that with humans, we can many times walk in our methods because we are walking with another frail human and depending on the circumstances, one or both could be right and it could be anybody. But we know that when we walk with God, He is always right as His wisdom and brain-scape are immense and infinite. How can we compare our ‘miniscuality’ with Him? We learn then that we are to align our thinking to God’s way and then agreeing, walk with Him so that He can lead us from one step of glory to another, Amen?