Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor? Isaiah 40:12-13
I cannot get the familiar song from childhood out of my head . . . “My God is so BIG, so STRONG and so MIGHTY, there’s nothing my God cannot do!” Remember those words? You may, in fact, sing it all day now that you’ve read those words — and that’s alright!
To children, there’s not much out there that doesn’t seem big and strong and mighty — everything is actually! Have you ever returned to a place you remember from your childhood as an adult only to find it much smaller than you recall? My backyard was huge! My house was even bigger! Driving by the place now though, I can’t help but notice it really wasn’t that big at all. As we age, as we grow bigger ourselves, stronger and more self-sufficient, that which was once MIGHTY becomes less mighty.
Oh how great is the danger in diminishing the “big-ness” or the “strength” or the “mighty-ness” of our God. Yet, the fallacy is that we have elevated ourselves to believe we are greater than He, more able than He, more in control than He, more wise than He. We take into our world the false belief that all things work together because we have orchestrated the events through our own efforts and that chance, good-luck and a sprinkle of coincidence somehow channel our existence and outcome.
But God, in His great love of which cannot be contained . . . in His great power of which cannot be contained . . . in His great simplicity of which cannot be contained, in His great knowledge of which cannot be contained has called His children (that’s me and you) by name.
How big, how strong, how mighty is your God? Remember, there’s NOTHING He cannot do — still!