“Do you not know?”
Those words woke me up when I read this chapter in Isaiah. The author sounds kind of cocky when he says it, Do you not know? Do you not understand? Do you get it? He is God. IS love. IS everything. Do I truly understand that he is God and he is the beginning, the end, and everything in between? He was, is, and always will be. He isn’t just a goal in our lives, he is THE ultimate goal. “Have not these words been told to you from the beginning?”.
He tends his flock like a shepherd:
He gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them close to his heart;
he gently leads those that have young.
This verse reminds me of how much The One God truly loves me and always will. He carries me “close to his heart“, meaning he will never let me go. I’m precious in his sight, I’m his daughter, I’m his bride, I’m the one who was worth dying for. The holy, perfect, righteous, compassionate, jealous God LOVES me. And wants the best for me!
Even when I don’t know something, I’m still in his will. I’m still in his plan. When I feel like I am pulled in a million different ways, he is still. He is softly calling me back into his arms, reminding me that no one knows his ways all the time. For, “who has understood the mind of the Lord?” Our intelligence is so limited! Even the smartest man on Earth can fall down over the tiniest pebble, but not out God. It’s God who chooses to reveal his plan for us at his time, not our’s.
I think we always put ourselves first. We always picture what we want God to do, when we want to do it, and where. I think we always get this false interpretation of God. However, Isaiah reminds us- we are nothing! Absolutely nothing compares to the one who is worthy of all praise! Why do we even try? Our ways are going to fail a million times over.
Before him all the nations are as nothing;
they are regarded by him as worthless
and less than nothing.
To whom, then, will you compare God?
What image will you compare him to?
Then, he even asks this again, “To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
This isn’t intended to hurt us it’s just supposed to remind of our place. We weren’t the ones who created the world and everything in it. “Lift your eyes to the heavens, who created these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name” When I look up at the stars, I seriously get lost. I feel so insignificant. When I’m starring up at the sky I’m reminded of how powerful God really is and how big he is. I lose myself, and can’t help but worship. I’m reminded of another passage in the Bible when Job is down on his knees before God and he realizes his own insignificance…. God asking him over and over again, “Were you there when I created the heavens?, Were you there when I made Adam and Eve?” He can now even ask me, “Were you there when I had my son, the savior of the world, be born from a virgin?” You are but nothing, and yet I love you anyway with a love that is far more powerful than any earthly love you will ever experience!
Then as the grand finale, we are reminded of a simple but very powerful promise:
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
