The God Who Is --- Part 10

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Isaiah 40: 12—26 (NRSV) Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance ? Who has directed the spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has instructed him ? Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice? Who taught him knowledge, and show him the way of understanding ? Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket , and are accounted as dust on the scales ; See, he take up the isles like fine dust. Lebanon would not provide fuel enough , nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering . All the nations are as nothing before him ; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness. To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compares with him ? An idol? ------A workman casts it , and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains. As a gift one chooses mulberry wood----wood that will not rot----then seeks out a skilled artisan to set up an image that will not topple . Have you not known ? Have you not heard ? Has it not been told you from the beginning ? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth ? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth ,and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in ; who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble. To whom then will you compare me , or who is my equal ? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see : Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name, because he is great in strenght, mighty in power, not one is missing.

                                                      The God Beyond Compare