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. (Isaiah 55:8-9)     Naaman the leper is an example of man’s thinking in conflict with God’s way. When Naaman arrived at the house of the prophet Elisha in Israel, hoping to be cleansed of his disease, the prophet just sent a messenger out to tell Naaman, “Go and wash in Jordan seven times…” (2 Kings 5:10).     Naaman “was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought…” (2 Kings 5:11). He had expected something entirely different. But his servants asked him, “If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?” (2 Kings 5:13). Only then did Naaman come to his senses and obey the simple instructions of God’s prophet. These are some other examples of how man’s thinking differs from God’s thinking: Man often emphasizes birthdays. Yet neither the month nor day, nor even the year of Jesus’ birth is mentioned anywhere in the Bible. The place of Jesus’ birth was not where man would have chosen. It was not Rome, the world capital; or Athens, the center of learning; or even Jerusalem, but little Bethlehem: “Bethlehem… little among the thousands of Judah” (Micah 5:2). Furthermore, man would probably have had Jesus enter the world as a full-grown man, not as a newborn baby. Not Politically Correct     Jesus’ selection of His apostles was