Isaiah 40
brendaonline.comIsaiah 40:1-31 (KJV)
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
Verses 1-5 is a description of God speaking to His people.
Imagine the people of God growing and becoming matures students in the Word of God as Hezekiah in the last verse of chapter 39. After being told by God he will be robbed unmercifully, and some of his sons will be held captive under the enemy's kingdom, he replied, "Good is the Word of the Lord."
When we consider God's wisdom in times of hardship and we still proclaim God is good, God will take us to new heights. And the new heights starts in verse 1-5 of what He wants to do for us when we show growth.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Verses 6-8 tell us that God is informing us that without him we must not forget we are grasshoppers. We tread the land destroying needful things. He wanted it proclaimed and He wanted us to know how we are defined without Him as our God.
9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Those students and teachers of the Word of God, take your position and get the Word of God out! Stop hiding and get louder and testify of the Word of God. Do not let the world's way of doing things be louder than the truth!
10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.
Verses 10-11. Who is this arm of God? Jesus! He will care for His Father's children as sheep and He will be the good shepherd who holds us close and guides carefully those who are not quite sure of who He is a pregnant mother who has not yet delivered her child. Jesus is God in the body. There is no difference between the two. If Jesus is the shepherd, imagine God the Father just like Him. A caregiver!
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his counsellor hath taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Who are we in comparison to God? All the people of the earth without God are less than nothing. A drop in a bucket. If every person on earth carried ammunition thinking he can defeat God, it is laughable. The same God we fight with just wants to be our friend.
16 And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
The most expensive trees in the world and all the fat animals of the field when offered to God as an offering could not satisfy Him. It is us He wants; not our stuff.
17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
All the people all over the world who refuse to honor and obey Him as God is worthless.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
What image do you see God as? What do you think has as much power as He?
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
You form your own God. Religion creates a new God regularly.
20 He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved.
You are poor and yet you find enough money to carve a god made of the things that are mine.
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Have you read about me in your history books?
22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
I am the God who controls everything and everyone. I can make a curtain from the sky and also design a tent from what I made the sky of, and live in it.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Whatever you think you can do without me will not work. I am God and the earth is mine and I alone know how My stuff works.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Who do you know is my equal?
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth.
Look at me! I know the star's name by name. If I call one of them by name, that one star will hear me and show up.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Nothing you do is hidden from Me, good or bad. Why do you speak like I cannot see?
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding.
I am wide awake 24/7.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength.
If you need strength to carry out your assignment from Me, I will give you strength, and anyone who is not given authority, I will set you on high.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
A young child who is not trained about me will be lost in this world. Your young men who you think can fight for you will die trying.
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
BUT!!!!! those who let me be God will look and be seen doing what I do! I will make a vast difference in those who are mine and those who are not. You will love being employed by Me and I said it Myself.
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