Isaiah 40

To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal? says the Holy One.
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one ofthem is missing.

Sometimes we can dismiss these kind of words in the Bible simply because it doesn't give us a direct answer to our problems, it's not necessarily something we can read and say "yup that's what I have to do to be more Christian". But having a relationship with God is as much know Him as doing what He wants.
In this passage, we get a simple message, God is one who not only created this world, but knows it inside out. All the billions of billions of stars out there in the sky, He knows them each by name.


Why do you say, O Jacob.
and complain, O Israel,
"My way is hidden from the Lord;
my cause is disregarded by My God?"

Do you ever feel like God is someone who just isn't there? You read about Him and you try to pray to Him but there's just no indications and you just get tired and frustrated with trying.

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of th ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary;
and young men stumble and fall;
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.


Be glad, because despite our insecurities, our frustrations, our indifference, our impatience... God is not a God who gives up. He works in ways that we may never understand but we can always count on, we can always trust in.

This passage i think stresses the importance of knowing that all people fail and stumble sometimes (a lot of times for many of us) but the important thing is to have our hope in the Lord.

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Isaiah 35
"Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way;
say to those with fearful hearts,
Be strong, do not fear; your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution he will come to save you.

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackels once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious beast get up on it; they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord will return.
They will enter Zion with singing everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away"

Sometimes I think I underestimate God. I underestimate how powerful and wonderful he really is. I try to process him and fit him into what I'm comfortable with. But I'm beginning to realise that God is so much bigger than I will ever give him credit for. He restores all things, he makes all the wrongs right and he wants me to let him take over, not to take away my freedom, but so he can take me to places that I can never imagine or even dream about.

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