Again: "Comfort, comfort my people, says your God." Thus begins Isaiah 40, which then goes on to describe the justice and greatness and severity of God. How are we to be comforted?
Though we are "like grasshoppers" (v. 22) in God's sight, though we are "grass that withers" (v. 7), yet He tends us like a shepherd, He brings us out by number and calls us by name (verses 11 & 26). He gives power to the faint and strength to the weak. If you were to read only verses 21-24, you would know of the greatness of God and the insignificance of man. And those two things are surely true. We are merely dust, and He knows it. (See Psalm 103:14.)
But read on in Isaiah 40.
See the kindness and patience of our great Creator God. See the "speaking tenderly" that He commands Isaiah. See the "lambs in his arms" and the "carrying them in his bosom" and know that this God does all His pleasure (see Psalm 115:3 and 135:6), and His pleasure is to love us (see Luke 12:32 and Psalm 147:11).
Be reconciled to the One True God today; be one of His lambs by virtue of submitting your life to Him. Then rest assured of His greatness of
power AND His greatness of love.
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