He is Unimaginable              By Carl McMurray

 

Have you ever counted the stars? How about naming them? Each one, without missing a single one? You might say that would be a fantastic feat. Even our astronomers with modern telescopes are only guessing at the number since the farther they see, the more stars they find. Now consider one who CAN do this. Unimaginable, you say?

 

Rachel Ray, on her cooking show, measures ingredients by pinches and handfuls. It is quite a skill I believe. What if one were charged with measuring out the seas, by handfuls? Or how about measuring out the heavens, by feet and inches? That would be quite a feat, eh? Yet there is one who can give these exact measurements.

 

And for the travelers who read this. Have you seen the Smoky Mountains, or the upper Appalachians? Have you been to the top of Mt. Washington or experienced the Rockies? How about just a view of Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park? Now imagine weighing out one of those mountains. That’s right, piece by piece on the scales. Or on a smaller scale, just calculating the dust of the earth, by measure. Impossible you say? Maybe for us, but the fortieth chapter of Isaiah describes the one who is able to do all this, and is even casual about it, if that is possible.

 

If you’re following the reading in our little guides this year you read last week in Isaiah 40:25, “To whom then will you liken Me that I should be his equal?” Says the Holy One. Or in verse 18, “to whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare with Him? It is no wonder that verse 15 states that, “the nations are like a drop from the bucket and are regarded as a speck on the scales.” And verse 17, “the nations are as nothing before Him.” And verse 23, “He it is who reduces rulers to nothing.”

 

Verse 13-14 teach in rhetorical question form that no one gives directions to the Lord’s Spirit. No one counsels God in His activities and He seeks no consultation with anyone to gain any understanding. He is THE Counsel and Creator. I believe that skeptics and atheists must be city people who have no communion with nature and who live where the artificial lights over shine the natural so they cannot see. If one but looks at the majesty of all that God has created one is struck with reverence. It is no wonder that the Lord says they are “without excuse,” Romans 1:20.  What God knows and understands and is able to do, is simply unimaginable. And then he bows down to reach out to us and bring us on high. He makes nothing into something simply because He loves what He has created. He is unimaginable.