This is what the Lord says—the Holy One of Israel and your Creator: “Do you question what I do for My children? Do you give Me orders about the work of My hands? I am the One who made the earth and created people to live on it. With My hands I stretched out the heavens. All the stars are at My command." (Isaiah 45:11-12)
As humans, we are a funny bunch.
We like to think that we are in control of our lives, that people should cater to our will, that God should do things our way. We forget who we are. We are mortal, weak, limited creatures who did nothing to gain our own life and can do little to extend it. We are specks with a blip lifetime on a speck planet in the vast universe. And we think we are gods, masters of our own fate, who can give orders to God.
That's funny.
And pretty sad.
The Proverbs say that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge (1:7). We don't really know anything yet if we don't know who we are and don't have reverential respect for who God is.
He is the Holy One.
He is the Lord of the universe.
He is the One who stretched out the heavens and who calls the stars by name.
And He is our Creator, our Maker, our Designer, our Sustainer.
We can reject Him, fight Him, ignore Him, deny Him. But how dumb is that? In Him, we live and move and have our very being (Acts 17:28).
The better choice is to acknowledge Him, humbly bow before Him, listen to Him, trust Him.
And in so doing, we find that the One who is our Creator, who stretched out the heavens with infinite power, is also our Savior, who stretched out His hands with infinite love…
On the cross.
For us.
