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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