Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Lift up your eyes on high and see


Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
His understanding is unsearchable.  Isaiah 40:28

It is really quite remarkable that He does not grow weary.  Grow weary of us.  His lambs.  We are so ornery and stumbling about in every which way but after Him.  Distracted by the least little weed in the path.  Tripping up over the least little obstacle.  

To whom then will you compare Me,
that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

His ways are not our ways.

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

And yet.
He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might He increases strength.

He is for us. He is not against us.  It is not antipathy or indifference that lifts Him so far out of our realm of comprehension.  It is His love and mercy that we cannot wrap our minds around.  But we do not have to understand.  We simply need stop gamboling about.  And wait.  
Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.  Isaiah 40: 28-31

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