To whom would you compare God? A Meditation on Isaiah 40

Isaiah presents a question to the people of God that bears pondering in every age:  to whom would we compare Him?  In a world awash in every form of paganism and self absorption, it becomes easy for the people of God to forget exactly who He is.  The world will always have its vaunted philosophers and politicians, kings and kingmakers, various priests of various religions and gods.  In our day, the voice of the dominant pagan god of the west we have named Science—her priests proclaim her wonders to the world, and her followers enter her temples to make obeisance.  She claims to have brought the world into existence by blind chance, and to rule the chaos according to her principles.  Her prophets speak in her name many blasphemous things, because she does not value life or mankind.  She is a cold and careless dominatrix, who strips from humanity and all creation not only their dignity, but their purpose of existence.  She brings so great a delusion upon the earth, that she would, if it were possible, deceive even the Elect of God.

It is tempting in an age such as ours, to wonder if our God is really up to the task of combating so great a pagan deity.  Science’s handmaiden Evolution, has already bowed the schools and the government to her will, despite the horrors she will shortly send upon us.  We are quick to forget, that atheistic Science with an Evolutionary view of the human race, brought upon the 20^th century more bloodshed than the entire recorded history of the world.  It took over whole countries, where the value of human life was held in relative esteem to those whom chance had given power.  Millions upon millions of Jews, Russians, Chinese, Europeans, Christians, and many others, died upon the eugenics altar of atheistic Science, while pogrom after pogrom sought to clear the land of people whose lives were meaningless to the regime.  Even now, millions of children have been murdered in the womb, and persecution rises in traditionally free lands, where atheistic Science and Evolution infest the halls of academia and politics.  We have brought in and tolerated this false god among us, and she has now taken tight hold of the pillars of western civilization, so that she might cast it to the ground.  Where will be the nation whose Constitution and Declaration proclaim the foundation of law and society to rest in the inalienable rights of people created equal in their Creator’s image, when atheistic Science and Evolution destroy the dignity of man and replace it with Nietzsche’s Will to Power?

Regardless of the false gods man has created to enslave and debase itself, God Almighty speaks to us through his prophet Isaiah words we must always hear and believe:

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?

saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and

behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out

their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the

greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and

speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my

judgment is passed over from my God?

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that

the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of

the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no

searching of his understanding. He giveth power to

the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

and the young men shall utterly fall:  But they that

wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall

mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be

weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Indeed, every false god, together with all who follow them, will faint and fail.  Science, as it has become divorced from a rightly ordered pursuit to observe and understand the created world in light of its Creator, will be dashed upon the rocks of it atheistic pretensions, and inherit the wind of its morally bankrupt Evolution. They do not have power in themselves to be sustained, because they are not the true God—instead, they are corrupters of that which is already made good, and pretenders to a throne upon which is already seated the King of Kings.

For there is only one true God, and we have known Him by His Word since the world began.  It is He who spoke the world into being, and He who sustains it by His Almighty will.  It is He who has never let the world be without His voice, that the people might always return to Him.  It is He who entered into the fallen mess of the world, to stand face to face with all the false gods of our presumption, and in the Person of Jesus Christ, suffered and died to redeem our lost race.  It is He who has ascended to the Right Hand of the Father, and He who will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.  It is His Spirit that ever calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies His People in this world and the next.  It is His Kingdom that shall have no end, and it is His people to whom He will give grace, mercy, forgiveness, and life everlasting.

Through all the cacophony of modern life, with all the lying voices of a thousand false gods ringing in our ears, the Word of the Lord remains.  By it, He calls us to faith and repentance, that we might receive from the only true God and Savior forgiveness, life, redemption, and hope.  Be not dismayed by the voice of devils and lying men—for the Lord our God sits forever upon His throne, and He has worked salvation for His people.  Behold the only true God:  The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.