Isaiah 40:6-20

Isaiah 40:6-20

Isaiah commands the people to "Behold your God". What a great, important and critical command for all of us as true followers of Jesus Christ. To behold our God always is the key to living a mature, victorious life in Christ.Behold your God is the lens through which we must view everything. All that we are, all that comes across our path, all that attacks and seeks to destroy us, all the good and bad that comes our way must be viewed through the lens of "Behold your God".The condition of the world today is directly related to a lost world that refuses to behold God. The impotence of the church in the world today is directly related to the fact that the church does everything but behold God. What would the church look like, what power would the church be walking in if the entire focus of the church would be, "Behold your God"?Warren Wiersbe says this, "When you behold the greatness of God, then you will see everything else in life in its proper perspective.May we today, and every remaining day of our lives on this earth, behold our God with every step, with every breath, with every waking moment that God grants to us.
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Chapter 40
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.
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!
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.
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.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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.
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