Hi there and welcome back to our series where we are learning to trust God more. We are about 4 or 5 posts into this series and I encourage you to read all of the posts. Let me give you a couple of links that you can use to read the series:
As the Lord led me into a deeper trust in His Sovereignty a couple of years ago, one of the things He prodded me toward was memorizing Scripture. In retrospect I can see that the Holy Spirit chose passages that focused on the sovereignty of God. Today, I want to share one of those passages with you and how it spoke to my heart.
The passage is Isaiah 40:21-31 (NKJV).
21 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?22 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 out like a tent to dwell in.23 He brings the princes to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth useless.24 Scarcely shall they be planted, Scarcely shall they be sown, Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth, When He will also blow on them, And they will wither, And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.25 “To whom then will you liken Me, Or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One.26 Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His power; Not one is missing.27 Why do you say, O Jacob, And speak, O Israel: “My way is hidden from the Lord, And my just claim is passed over by my God”?28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.29 He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,31 But those who wait on 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.
As I memorized these verses, I was encouraged by the way they point to the absolute power and authority of God over the affairs of men and creation. Check out the phrases:
- Stretches out the heavens like a curtain
- Spreads them out like a tent to dwell in
- Brings princes to nothing
- Makes the judges of the earth useless
- He blows on them (princes and judges) and they whither and are taken away like stubble
- Brings out the heavenly objects by number and calls them all by name
- He gives power and strength to the young and the weak
Now, go back and read through those slowly and really ponder what each means. No man on earth has that kind of power and authority. Only God. Only our God who never grows faint or weary. Only a sovereign God who sees each of us, even though we are like grasshoppers in His sight. Only a God who has absolute power and absolute authority.
If God is all of that and can do all of that, how foolish I would be to trust in myself, or other humans, rather than God.
Tell me friend, what from this passage of Scripture speaks to your heart?
How might you use these verse from Isaiah to encourage your heart to trust God more deeply?
What is holding you back from trusting our sovereign God today?
SDG/FCA!
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