We’re comparing things all the time, making decisions as to what comes into our lives. This chart shows a small comparison of what software is used to view my blog. Each of those users chose their software. We determine what we will eat, selecting from menus in our favorite restaurants. Every day in so many ways, we compare.
With what do you compare the biblical God of creation? First off, remember who He says He is – there is only One God. If you disagree, by what measure was that decision made?Isa 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Look around, did it really come from millions of years of accidents? Was there no intelligent design behind this world of ours? Look:
Isa 40:26 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.
Do you think He does not know? Do you think your ways are hidden. That mankind is of such unimportance to Him that He does not care about His creation?
Isa 40:27 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?
Don’t you know Him? Haven’t you listened?
Isa 40:28 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.
We’re certainly not the first to consider Him, nor will we be the last. He is available to all who seek Him. I like this St. Augustine quote:
“Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that you may understand."
I know Augustine believed that because he is quoted more than once about understanding:
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed."
That lack of understanding does not negate our search for Him, our acknowledgement of Him nor our gratefulness to Him.
Interesting topic. I am reading a book right now and so far it has dealt with this topic of comparing, but from a different angle. As in, we compare ourselves to other Christians, and feel that if we are "better" than them, the we are closer to God and God is more pleased with us. That is why so many spend most of their time trying to find the faults of others.
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