Isaiah 40 holds the crux of Me, says the Lord.  The essence of who I AM is found here!

My obvious characteristics are of power and might; and justice is in My hand.  The heavens stretch out before me and the land rolls from beneath My feet.  All flesh is grass as compared with My LASTING COVENANT with Myself – Permanence in Me is what lasts.

I AM from EVERLASTING to EVERLASTING and with Me, there is NO TURNING – I STAY.

Wheel within a Wheel – I turn you faster- the One within moves the whole structure and turns the greater wheel of the earth!  What is the earth’s axis but the finger of God – immoveable, unshakable within the structure and on which it turns?

AXIS powers think everything hinges on them and that they are the forces which turn the earth! THINK AGAIN.  I do it all!  Turning the earth is My job to do and I do it without fail.

The days’ events will tell it.  Even today, you will see the Hand of God move across the earth and singlehandedly – I will turn events in the direction that I would have them go.  This is My Word, says the Lord.  Is anything too difficult for Me?

 

The Creator of All You Can See or Imagine

Who has scooped up the ocean
in his two hands,
or measured the sky between his thumb and little finger,
Who has put all the earth’s dirt in one of his baskets,
weighed each mountain and hill?
Who could ever have told God what to do
or taught him his business?
What expert would he have gone to for advice,
what school would he attend to learn justice?
What god do you suppose might have taught him what he knows,
showed him how things work?
Why, the nations are but a drop in a bucket,
a mere smudge on a window.
Watch him sweep up the islands
like so much dust off the floor!
There aren’t enough trees in Lebanon
nor enough animals in those vast forests
to furnish adequate fuel and offerings for his worship.
All the nations add up to simply nothing before him—
less than nothing is more like it. A minus.
 So who even comes close to being like God?
To whom or what can you compare him?
Some no-god idol? Ridiculous!
It’s made in a workshop, cast in bronze,
Given a thin veneer of gold,
and draped with silver filigree.
Or, perhaps someone will select a fine wood—
olive wood, say—that won’t rot,
Then hire a woodcarver to make a no-god,
giving special care to its base so it won’t tip over!
Have you not been paying attention?
Have you not been listening?
Haven’t you heard these stories all your life?
Don’t you understand the foundation of all things?
God sits high above the round ball of earth.
The people look like mere ants.
He stretches out the skies like a canvas—
yes, like a tent canvas to live under.
He ignores what all the princes say and do.
The rulers of the earth count for nothing.
Princes and rulers don’t amount to much.
Like seeds barely rooted, just sprouted,
They shrivel when God blows on them.
Like flecks of chaff, they’re gone with the wind.
 “So—who is like me?
Who holds a candle to me?” says The Holy.
Look at the night skies:
Who do you think made all this?
Who marches this army of stars out each night,
counts them off, calls each by name
—so magnificent! so powerful!—
and never overlooks a single one?
Why would you ever complain, O Jacob,
or, whine, Israel, saying,
“God has lost track of me.
He doesn’t care what happens to me”?
Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening?
God doesn’t come and go. God lasts.
He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine.
He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath.
And he knows everything, inside and out.
He energizes those who get tired,
gives fresh strength to dropouts.
For even young people tire and drop out,
young folk in their prime stumble and fall.
But those who wait upon God get fresh strength.
They spread their wings and soar like eagles,
They run and don’t get tired,
they walk and don’t lag behind. ~Isaiah 40:12-31 (MSG)

With love & belief, Jill