THE IMMENSITY OF GOD

6/30/02

Morning Meditation 5/18/2013

Scripture: Isaiah 40:12-14, "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?"

One of the things that places a limitation on the Christian, when it comes to the understanding of God, is the total lack of comprehending Him. In spite of all we do, we wind up with a man-made god that is no bigger than us.

"As we have sung it on many occasions, all of us have been impressed with the theme of Boberg's song, 'How the majesty and greatness of our God.' Two and a half to three thousand years ago another writer, one of the great literary masters of all time took up his pen. His name was Isaiah, and his subject that of Boberg's song, 'How Great Thou Art!' Isaiah declares in wonderful language the glory and the immensity."

"The first of these great measurements of volume. 'He hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand.' How much water can you measure in the hollow of your hand? I tried it one day recently. DO you know how many gallons I put two tea spoons in it, but when I put the third teaspoonful I had great difficulty in keeping the first two teaspoons from leaking out of the hollow of my hand. What about the hollow of God's hand? In it He has measured the waters of Lake Ontario, of Lake Erie, of the St. Lawrence River, of the Mississippi, the Amazon and the Nile, and the waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and the other great oceans. Four hundred million cubic miles of waters God has measured in the hollow of His hand! What a great God is ours."

"We note also that God has a measurement for distance. We read that He meted out the heavens with His span. What is your span? I measured mine the same night and found it to be about eight or nine inches. But God measures out the heavens with His span--all those But God measures out the heavens with His span--all those starry heavens that we look out upon on a lovely night in that heaven in the brightness of day there is a glorious sun which by human calculation is so large that one and a quarter million earths could go into it. I am told that if you took an express train tonight in the direction of the nearest of the nearest star, it would take you sixty million years to reach it. Men go faster than that nowadays. They go at fast rocket speed: but if man were to start for a star in a rocket it would take 25,000 years to reach the nearest star. And suppose you could travel at the speed of light, 186,000 miles in a second (around the world seven times in one second) it would require four years or more to reach the nearest star, you would require, and two million years to the nearest galaxy. Our minds stagger at the enormity of these figures they are too great for us to comprehend: but that is the measure of God's span. 'How great thou art!"

The fourth measure of God is weight. How does God measure weight? He weighs the hills in the scales and the mountains in a balance Everest, Kunchenjunga all the mountains of the Himalayas, the Alps, and the Rockies and the Andes. Put them all together and they all can go in God's scales. How great, how infinite, how majestic, is our God?"

Read on down a few verses in Isaiah 40 to verse 15. Here we read of the creature, the great nations of men, evidencing God's greatness: China with over 600 million people. India with over 500 million, Russia and the USA each with over 200 million, Canada with 20 million. These great and populous nations, and all the lesser peoples--they are nothing to God just like a drop in the bucket at the tap. Have you ever filled a bucket at the tap and carried it along the road full? Perhaps, as you filled it there was a little spilled over the side. Then as you walked a little more would spill.. Did you notice how much lighter the bucket was when a drop fell from the bucket to the ground? The fact is that you did not notice any weight changes in the bucket you were carrying?

"God takes up the Isles of the earth, large and small, and all the great continents of men, with heir teeming millions--for the continents are but islands surrounded by water in God's eyes--and He counts them a very small thing, a speck of dust, a flake of powder. What an evidence to God's greatness in contrast to the nations of men. 'How' great thou art!" By Naismith A TREASURE OF NOTES, QUOTES AND ANECDOTES

May the Lord bless these words to our hearts.

In Christ

Earl White