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 peoples and governments of the earth are like a grain of dust on scales measuring their impact. God is mightier than any created power.
Even turning to supernatural powers and forces, God has no rival. People that worship gods of their own making are laughable. They trust in their own creations, their own images, their own ideas. These gods cannot move, let alone act upon the world. They have no power; they cannot protect nor influence events. God alone is divine and Lord of Creation.
When we look back at recorded history, time and time again, God is proven the only One worthy to be trusted. Nation after nation, government after government, empire after empire, all fade away. Our history might as well be the story of an ant farm. We shape and mold things for a time, but God works out His purposes in creation. Even those who oppose Him play into His designs.
Even the stars and their systems, the galaxies too vast to number in the overwhelming universe, are the works of His hands. He knows them all. We discover new galaxies millions of light years away, and He already knew them intimately from the time He created them.
Instead of doing our own thing and creating our own plans, we should turn to the God of the universe who created us and loves us. He is active in creation. He is pursuing a relationship with us. When we trust, wait, and hope in Him, we will not be let down. He will strengthen us in our trusting. He will hold us up in our waiting. He will not disappoint us in our hoping.
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 peoples and governments of the earth are like a grain of dust on scales measuring their impact. God is mightier than any created power.
Even turning to supernatural powers and forces, God has no rival. People that worship gods of their own making are laughable. They trust in their own creations, their own images, their own ideas. These gods cannot move, let alone act upon the world. They have no power; they cannot protect nor influence events. God alone is divine and Lord of Creation.
When we look back at recorded history, time and time again, God is proven the only One worthy to be trusted. Nation after nation, government after government, empire after empire, all fade away. Our history might as well be the story of an ant farm. We shape and mold things for a time, but God works out His purposes in creation. Even those who oppose Him play into His designs.
Even the stars and their systems, the galaxies too vast to number in the overwhelming universe, are the works of His hands. He knows them all. We discover new galaxies millions of light years away, and He already knew them intimately from the time He created them.
Instead of doing our own thing and creating our own plans, we should turn to the God of the universe who created us and loves us. He is active in creation. He is pursuing a relationship with us. When we trust, wait, and hope in Him, we will not be let down. He will strengthen us in our trusting. He will hold us up in our waiting. He will not disappoint us in our hoping.
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