God's Power
Intro – Favorite football team or player
What do you notice about football players? Their size and
strength.
Isaiah 40 talks about human strength so let’s look at what
it has to say about it.
1-8
ALL flesh is grass. Grass withers, flowers fade, but the
word of our God stands forever.
When we compare our strength with God’s there is really no
good way to get the proper scale. The grass in my yard is looking pretty sorry
right now.
9-17 Isaiah uses rhetorical questions to describe God in
this section. As we read it, think about what he is saying about God and how it
helps us understand God’s power.
Read 9-17
What does this section
tell us about God?
He will come with
MIGHT
His Arm ruling for
him
His reward is with
him
His recompense is
with him
He is like a
shepherd
He tends his flock
He carries the
lambs and gently leads the nursing ewes.
He is so awesome
that He holds the waters in the hollow if His hand.
He has a Spirit,
no one council him
Skip to 28-31
He does
not become weary
V30
–football players
If you
wait on the lord you will not get weary.
How many of us have
the kind of patience Isaiah is talking about in v31?
Why do you think God
wants us to wait on Him?
Isaiah went to such
great lengths to describe God’s power and contrast it with human frailty, then
at the end of this section he says that we can gain strength through patience.
(My paraphrase).
Do you think
understanding God’s power affects our ability to be patient?
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