God doesn’t think like you.

And you don’t think like God.

And to hear God tell it – the difference – is not even close.

Mine aren’t yours.

Yours aren’t mine.

And ours aren’t even close.

That pretty much sums up the way God tells it.

In fact, to hear God tell it, God Himself thinks that God Himself is the only real authority on the subject of God Himself. And if that’s true, then of course, that means absolutely nobody else is. Not even you.

And to hear God tell it, God fancies Himself to be the only “real expert on God” in the room.

Which room? To hear God tell it – every room.

And to hear God tell it, as difficult as it might be for some people to believe, God actually thinks He knows some things about Himself that the other smart guys in the room don’t.

Go figure. Real experts are just quirky like that sometimes.

In fact, to hear God tell it, He has this one particular and peculiar notion about Himself that none of the other “experts” even seem to be aware of:

God thinks it’s impossible to overestimate the difference between the way He thinks and the way you think.

No, not the likeness between His thoughts and your thoughts – but the completely unimaginable and utterly inestimable difference.

But then again, that’s just how God tells it. You, of course, may disagree. Apparently, most people do. Especially the other experts in the room.

But even if you do disagree, you’ll have to admit, His authoritative “opinion” in this case is based on what appears at first glance to be a couple of fairly sound premises:

Number one, that He’s God.

And number two, that you’re not.

And according to His very own expert opinion, His thoughts are actually those not closest to your own as the other experts would likely tell you, but rather, those that lie at the absolute greatest possible distance. Further away from your own thoughts than you could ever have possibly imagined.

Imagine that.

No, on second thought, the only real Expert in the room insists that you can’t imagine that. Even if you try.

In fact, by God’s very own expert calculation, His thoughts and your thoughts are so completely un-alike, that even the most remote similarity between them could only exist in your imagination. And absolutely nowhere else.

In what may be the most shocking and understated revelation ever made, the prophet Isaiah declares on behalf of God what you could never possibly have known before he told you. And what you are likely not to believe, even after he’s told you: that the deepest and most unspannable divide that has ever existed between any two things lies precisely between God’s thoughts and your thoughts, permanently fixed in place by the two simple words are not: God’s very own unimpeachable Self-Expert testimony that, as long as the heavens remain higher than the earth, His thoughts will never be your thoughts – and your thoughts will never be His.

In six of the simplest words ever spoken, God makes it perfectly clear to even the simplest among us that He actually thinks the very thought about you that, ironically, you could never possibly have thought about Him:

My thoughts – are not – your thoughts.

And if that thought doesn’t completely astonish you beyond thought, it’s because you’re failing to grasp the magnitude of what the only real Expert in the room is actually saying.

It would be one thing if God were simply making the statement that between His thoughts and your thoughts, the likeness is limited. That claim would be one with which almost everyone would likely agree. But unfortunately, that’s not even remotely close to what He’s saying.

Through the prophet Isaiah, God is making an altogether different and unimaginably larger claim concerning His thoughts and your thoughts. He is not merely asserting that the likeness between them is limited. On the contrary.

He is very matter-of-factly stating that the difference between them is infinite.

And that claim – of an unchangeably infinite difference between every thought that God thinks and every thought that you think – is one with which almost no one is likely to agree. Especially not the other experts in the room.

And that’s why it’s probably not even close to what your pastor thinks.

Or what your favorite TV preacher thinks.

Or what any of your church friends think.

Or even what you yourself think.

But that doesn’t seem to bother Isaiah in the least. Because according to him – that’s still – exactly and only – what God Himself thinks.

And here’s what you always want to keep in mind whenever you think about what God thinks:

It doesn’t matter how much you differ with what God thinks.

Or how brilliantly you argue against what God thinks.

Or even if, when all is said and done, you and the whole wide world – and the TV preacher – stand unitedly opposed to what God thinks.

Because He’s God and you’re not – in the end – the only thing that counts is what God thinks.

So without even bothering to ask what you or the TV preacher thinks, the prophet Isaiah announces to the whole wide world what God Himself really thinks – about what you and everybody else thinks:

My thoughts are not your thoughts, declares the only real Expert in the room.

And the difference is not even close.