That they would plunge themselves into “the Godhead’s deepest sea” and “be lost in his immensity.”

--Paraphrase of Charles Spurgeon

It is the identity of God that speaks to the crisis of humanity.

• God is not small.
• I am not big.

Isaiah 40:12

Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale? 

Instead of secularization, it makes sense to talk about the fragmentation and personalization of Christianity. . . in which traditional churches have been [replaced] by self-help gurus and spiritual-political entrepreneurs. 

These [individuals] cobble together pieces of the old orthodoxies, take out the inconvenient bits, and pitch them to mass audiences that want part of the old-time religion but nothing too unsettling or challenging or ascetic. The result is a nation where . . . the prosperity gospel and Christian nationalism rule the right and a social gospel [stripped] of theological content rules the left.

--Ross Douthat

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young. 

Psalm 115:3

Our God is in the heavens, and he does as he wishes. 

God’s greatness is seen in Creation

Isaiah 40:12

Who else has held the oceans in his hand?

What is massive to us is manageable to God.  

God’s greatness is seen in his all-knowingness.

Isaiah 40:13–14

Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord? Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him? Has the Lord ever needed anyone’s advice? Does he need instruction about what is good? Did someone teach him what is right or show him the path of justice? 

What is unknown to us is fully known to God.

Proverbs 3:19

By wisdom the Lord founded the earth; by understanding he created the heavens. 

God’s greatness is seen in his view of the nations.

Isaiah 40:15

No, for all the nations of the world are but a drop in the bucket. They are nothing more than dust on the scales. He picks up the whole earth as though it were a grain of sand. 

What is major to us is minute to God.

Isaiah 40:16

All the wood in Lebanon’s forests and all Lebanon’s animals would not be enough to make a burnt offering worthy of our God. 

You can trust Him.