Have You Not Heard?


Isaiah 40:28
“Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, The Lord
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable”


I like this verse because it reminds me just how big God is. A reoccurring theme for me has been seeing God’s greatness. Everywhere I look I see giant problems that we have created, so much sin and destruction that the devil has wrought. Then; however, I am reminded that God is bigger than all of this. He doesn’t look at this world and all it’s problems and think “oh well guess they’ve gone too far” No! He looks at us and He sees the people He created. The blue eyes, the brown hair the carefully crafted hearts and minds He put in each one of us. He sees how much He loves us and His heart breaks for us and the paths we choose to follow. His love is limitless, never ending, pure, holy, and without fault. God cares so much for us that even when we fail and fall off the path He looks at us with love in His eyes. He says sweetly “My love, have I not formed the universe with my breath? Have I not created every single atom in your body? If I have done these things, yet I say they are nothing compared to the value of your heart, do you not think I will move heaven and earth, if necessary, to pick you up in my arms and carry you back into my fold?” His understanding is unsearchable, no one can know what the Lord is thinking, or what He is doing but we do know it is for good that He does anything, we know He loves us with wave after wave of renewed, pure love. Isaiah has a good point when he says “Have you not known? Have you not heard?” It is imperative that we both hear and know the goodness of God. Without this knowledge we lose our way, we get lost in a sea of confusion and doubt. We wonder if God really is who He says He is. We begin to listen to the whispered lies of the devil, telling us we are sinners of the highest degree, not worthy of anything other than death eternally. God loves us more than anything else He has created, and so has given us the ability and freedom to make out own decisions, He longs for us to choose to seek Him, but He never wanted robots who serve Him blindly so when we choose to go our own way He patiently waits for us to turn back to Him. He never leaves us even in our darkest, most sinful hour He was and is right there waiting waiting for us to turn back to Him. Sometimes with many tears of repentance, so that He may carry us home in His loving arms. The Lord God neither faints nor is weary, He will do anything for the children He loves to be brought near to Himself.

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