To whom then will ye liken -- "For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or, who hath been His counsellor? Or, who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again? For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things; to whom be glory for ever. Amen." (Romans 11:34-36) The same questions but expressed differently -- "to whom then will ye liken God? Or, what likeness will ye compare unto Him?" (Isaiah 40:18)
In the world, "the workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that He hath no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeketh unto Him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved." (Isaiah 40:1-20)
Or, "they lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god, and they fall down, yea, they worship. They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove" yea, one shall cry unto him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble." (Isaiah 46:6-7)
But the Lord says: "Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" (Isaiah 40:21)
In the beginning, God. (Genesis 1:1) One God who is both our Lord and Saviour. It is He that has formed the world in which we live, and all creation. It is He who separated the light from the darkness. The waters divided to allow the dry land to appear. The earth bringing forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding seed after his kind, whose seed in itself, upon the earth. And God saw that His creation was good. (Genesis 1:1-12)
"For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens. God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it. He created it not in vain. He formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is none else." (Isaiah 45:18)
In fact, "it is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof as grasshoppers, that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in. That brings the princes to nothing, and makes the judges of the earth as vanity. Yea, they shall not be planted: yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and He shall also blow upon them and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble." (Isaiah 40:22-24)
Again, "to whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal?" saith the holy One. (Isaiah 40:25; Isaiah 46:5) Because "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me." (Isaiah 45:5) The same God who created us in the beginning loved you and I enough to also became our Saviour. (Isaiah 45:15)
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without HIm was not anything made that was made ... He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not ... and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father;) full of grace and truth." (John 1:1-18)
This is why we "lift up [our] eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number. He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power [and] not one faileth." (Isaiah 40:26)
Indeed, "behold the Lord God will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him; behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. He shall feed His flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry in His bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are young -- who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance." (Isaiah 40:12)
Again, "who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or His counsellor hath taught Him? -- with whom took He counsel and instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge and showed to Him the way of understanding?" (Isaiah 40:14)
No other Saviour but God Himself. It is He who loves us beyond any worldly measure. This is why Jesus instructed us to worship Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength -- and not the handcrafted idols of this world.
"Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not. They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them [and] so is every one that trusteth in them." (Psalms 115:4-8)
Trust in Jesus today. Only He can give you the peace you seek. Stand in the offering plate.
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