Have You Not Heard?

© Elise Grinstead 2012

"Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by his name.

Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

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 understanding no one can fathom."

 Embrace this: The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are His everlasting arms.

"You, bring in your idols to tell us what is going to happen. Tell us what the former things were so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the future to come, tell us what the future holds, so we may know that you are gods. Do something, whether good or bad, so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear."

Remember, we know little. You do not have His power to pronounce what was, is, or is to be.

"See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being, I announce them to you."

Incline your ears, and hear…

"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert, and streams in the wasteland."

Lift up your eyes, and behold…

I am the Lord, Your Holy One, Israel’s Creator, your King.

Isaiah 40:21, 25-26, 28; Deuteronomy 33:27; Isaiah 42:9, 43:18-19, 15
Italicized words added by Elise Grinstead