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Daily Devotion: Isaiah 40:13-14

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Isaiah 40:13-14      "Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?  (14)  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?"

There have been many times when I would begin a project and have to restart it more than once. The problem was that I did not think that project through all the way to the end. Something would present itself as an obstacle, or I would forget to place a screw in the right place, only to have to remove some part and begin again. I admit that I am not the very best at following instructions. I like to look at the picture of the finished project and then hope mine looks like that when I get finished. But then there is the problem of it working correctly once I have finished it.

What does that have to do with today's verses of Scripture? I have admitted my fallacy of being able to put things together. Maybe you can identify with that in some way or another. But I can adamantly tell you that God has never had to start over. "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)  "Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?"  How did He know the proper mixture of gases in the atmosphere that would support human life? Who taught Him how to create a tree, or make a bird fly?  Sometimes we may think we have perfect understanding of things, but only God can state that with all truth.  There was a time in the life of Job that he thought he had figured all things out and had answers for everything. That is, until God began to ask questions of him. "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?" (Job 38:4)  We used the term, omnipotent, yesterday to describe the fact that God has all power. Today, we use the word "omniscient" which is the theological term that says God has full and complete knowledge of all things - past, present, and future.  I'm thankful that there is never a thing that catches God off guard. I'm thankful He never has to stop unexpectedly and change things around. I'm thankful that my Lord is the same yesterday, today, and for ever. Aren't you?

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