Have you ever thought about how great God is? I mean like really thought about it.
“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? Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding?” (Isaiah 40:12-14)
Isaiah 40 goes on to talk about how God existed before anything else did. How He founded the earth, He created it and everything else in all existence.
“With whom, then, will you compare God? To what image will you liken him?” (Isaiah 40:18)
“‘To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God’? 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.” (Isaiah 40:25-28)
All of chapter forty from the book of Isaiah talks about how great God is, as do many many many books in The Bible. But Isaiah wrote about it in a personal way—acknowledging God is greater than anything and that He knows everything about him(and just everything in general).
HE—our Creator—is Thee GREATEST!
David also phrases God’s vast greatness in the same way in Psalm 139.
“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.” (Psalm 139:14)
“How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.” (Psalm 139:17-18)
The thing is that it’s beyond our understanding and we can never really put it into words. It too much.
He is our Creator, all He does is far beyond our comprehension.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.” (Psalm 145:3)
And He’s not only great because of His Power and Sovereignty but also because of how good He is.
Think about it. Did God need to forgive you for that thing you did a few years ago that you knew was wrong and deeply regretted it later? No, probably not. I surely didn’t—and still don’t—deserve His Forgiveness. But He forgives us. Time after time after time. Why? Because He’s great and has great Love for us.
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)
Did God need to sacrifice His Only Son to be our Savior? No, but He did because He loves us that greatly.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
