Trust in and Wait on YHWH (Isaiah 40:12-31)
Why can we take comfort? Because our trust is given to YHWH, God, the Creator of reality. Isaiah gives us a five-fold description of God that justifies placing our trust in Him and taking comfort in the fact He has us in His grip: God’s knowledge and wisdom, His power, His unique divinity, His sovereign rule of history, and His control of the universe. Poetically, Isaiah describes God’s knowledge of the vastness of creation. God knows everything about the things He has made. He knows the amount of water, dust, mountains and matter in existence. He made them all. His knowledge does not stop there. He understands everything. The plans of the universe are His, and the way things work out best are known to Him. He does not need advice nor counsel. Compared to God, all the peoples of the world are like nothing. China? Russia? The USA? Who is the biggest superpower? It does not matter nor compare to the power of God. They are like gnats on the back of a mighty ox. The power of all the p...
