21 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
Wake up world! He is King and will NOT
relinquish His rights to ANYONE! When I read this stanza...I feel like
the Kyrsten Translation is Hello! Get out of yourself and realize that
I am God!
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
We are just a bunch of
grasshoppers! Small and insignificant and ignorant to the much bigger
universe around us and YET the Merciful One stretches out His home, the
heavens, like a canopy to create a home for us to live in!! Thank you
Isaiah for revealing to us our condition!
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
NOTHING is a great power than He
who has rescued us from the darkness and brought us into the marvelous
light, into the kingdom where He dwells and reigns!
25 "To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
I dare you...
26 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 of them is missing.
What a sweet Teacher He
is...showing us, infants really, in our language and through our
limited understanding a smidgeon of the depth, width and height of His
great power and strength!
27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and complain, O Israel,
"My way is hidden from the LORD;
my cause is disregarded by my God"?
Can this same LORD who keeps track
of the stars be unaware of the life of His children? We are foolish to
complain. We belittle Him when we lament that He is not near, that He
does not know, that He is not aware and that He has turned aside and
closed His eyes to us.
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 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.
It is not about how strong we are,
but the strength of the one who is in us, working and willing to do
that which will bring Him ALL glory and honor and power throughout all
the generations! Christians, let us let ourselves die and let Him truly
live in us!!!!
--Isaiah 40:21-31
--Kyrsten's commentary
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