Who
Is My Equal?
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?
Isaiah 40:12-13
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 members them,
calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not
one is missing.
Why do
you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my
right is disregarded by my God”? 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. He gives power to the
faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and
the young will fall exhausted; but those 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: 25-31
Have you
ever noticed that if a bird is close to you and a mountain range is far away,
the bird looks bigger than the mountain range? As the bird flies away you see
how small it really is. Sometimes we perceive God this way in our own
relationships. Our problems seem huge and God seems to far away, and we may
even see Him as small and unreachable. The reality is quite different.
The
prophet Isaiah changes our perspective by asking who has measured the waters in
the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of
the earth in a measure? Who has weighed the mountains
in scales and the hills in a balance?
Just as
a bird is never bigger than a mountain, no problem is ever bigger than God. It
is a matter of changing our perspective.
We worship a God
who
is greater than our greatest problem.
Our Daily Bread – October 28, 2008