I think if you ask a modern-day Christian to describe the thoughts of mankind in a word, you’d likely hear something in the vicinity of “sin” or “froward” or “wicked” or “evil.”

But what I think a lot of people don’t realize is that it is actually the Law that is “your thoughts.” In other words, the Law is native to your mind (or, your mind is native to the Law); you are familiar with it, you agree with it, it seems right to you, it is written on your heart and is the basis for the entirety of the natural moral existence of every person on the planet. So when God declares in Isaiah,

“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.”

We can infer by substitution that He is saying:

“For my thoughts are not the Law, neither are the ways of the Law my ways,” declares the Lord.

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than the ways of the Law and my thoughts than the Law.”

The Law was never God’s eternal plan; it was merely to increase sin, until the seed should come to whom the promises were made in advance.