Sunday, 16 February 2025

HOW CAN YOU SAY…?

Isaiah 40:25 NLT 
“To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?” asks the Holy One. 
26 Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars?
He brings them out like an army, one after another,
calling each by its name.
Because of his great power and incomparable strength,
not a single one is missing.
27 O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles?
O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?

Isaiah 40 is a wonderful chapter and he stretches our imaginations to consider how great our God is. He describes in verse 12 how God held the oceans in the hollow of His hand, and measured off the heavens with His fingers. God knows the weight of the earth and weighed the mountains and hills on a scale. 

The AMPC translation says He measured off the heavens with a 9-inch span. A span is from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. Just imagine the brilliance of God’s mind that could work those things out using His hand!

You can almost see Isaiah being inspired by the Holy Spirit to ‘see’ how powerful and awesome our God is as he describes the creating of the heavens. God just becomes greater and greater in our thinking and then he suddenly shifts track and says “How can you say the Lord does not see your troubles?”

He’s helping us realise that God sees and knows everything and He is so powerful there is no trouble we could ever possibly have that would be too much for Him to solve!😊

He continues in v.28 Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.

So next time you have some troubles looming up that seem impossible to you, maybe it would be good to have another read of this chapter and allow the Holy Spirit to let you know we can trust our God to not only sort it out and never miss a beat, but He’ll lift us up on wings like eagles while He does it.😊 What a mighty God is our God! Let’s praise Him today. Amen.


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