Mon.'s Devo - The Greatness of Our God

Read Isa. 40:1-26
The next 8 chapters of Isaiah look forward to the time when Israel will be in captivity in Babylon.  Isaiah probably wrote these later in his life.  He starts out comforting Israel during its time of discipline in Babylon because it is over.  Now Isaiah is calling Israel to get ready for God to act.  They need to prepare themselves spiritually.  They are to make a smooth highway for God to enter in the desert.  Every valley will be brought up and every mountain will be made low; the crooked straight, and tough places smooth.  In other words, everyone is going to be at the same level.  God's glory has a way of reducing us all to dust.  No pride stands against his glory.  God himself will rule and take care of his people like a shepherd tends his sheep.  This God who holds all the waters of the earth in the palm of his hand, who can measure heaven with the spread of his fingers, and knows the measure of the dust of the earth and the weight of the mountains will gently lead us and love us.  No one taught God how to judge or live.  He is all knowledge and wisdom.  There is nothing that can stand before him or comprehend him.  People have tried to make images of him for ever and no one has gotten it right.  God sits on the path that the earth takes and sees us as grasshoppers.  He stretched out the heavens as I stretch out my curtains on my table.  He can totally manage and control the heavens and the earth.  He decides who rules and who gets dethroned.  What on earth do we have to compare to God?  No one.        
Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!  How can we not trust you and love you?