"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;

and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!

Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor

on what does not satisfy?

Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, your soul will

delight in the richest of fare." Isaiah 55:1-2

Focusing on anything besides knowing God more is like buying expensive plastic food to eat. Like working non-stop for days in a field then finding out you get paid in monopoly money. Anything besides God that I think is satisfying and good... it's fake.

Without Him, I am thirsty, tired, blind, and hopeless. God rescues us from our misery and what we think is self-reliance and gives us the opportunity to have more than we can dream.

He tells us that on our own, we can't get anything right and we can't find anything that compares to Him. And since we can't get to him, he comes to us. He rescues our dead souls and restores them. He knows what is good for us and wants what is good for us - to delight in him, to know him, and to glorify him.

Why would I settle for anything less?

"'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

Even the best plan or idea I can dream of coming up with is nothing compared to

what the Lord can do. Thank goodness, because even I know that if I was left to my own ideas and plans... it would be bad.

Why do I constantly forget that He knows best and wants that?

Why do I fight him for the pen of my life and insist he let me write a page?

What he is writing is always better. Something I have to remind myself of everyday... thankfully He is there to remind me of the beauty of himself and the gospel.