Isaiah 48:20
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 understandings no one can fathom.
This is this week’s memory verse. What a wonderful statement about God – it overwhelming tells us how much more he is than us. He is everlasting – we are temporary; he is the Creator of the ends of the earth – we will never even see a fraction of the earth, let alone create it; he will never grow tired or weary – even after all his creative work he still has endless capacity, while we get tired after 5 or 6 hours. There is no comparison between us!
The bit that catches me though is that final part of the verse – his understandings no one can fathom. God is so much more, so much bigger, so much more complicated than us – we can never hope to fully understand him. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel small? Or hopeless that you’ll never understand it all? It shouldn’t.
God is not big in comparison to us. So his being big does not make us small. We were created in his image! This big, awesome, everlasting God – we bear a resemblance to him.
Instead, this verse inspires me to seek more, to keep exploring all of my God, discovering more and more of his character, his love, his power. The earth is huge, and knowing that we will never manage to see all of it could make us give up and never leave our town. But instead it inspires many to travel, to see the world, to take in as much as they can. And that’s how I feel about God. Whatever I discover about him, there will always be more yet to learn. So I will keep chasing after more!
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