Peace in Spite of the News

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One night last week Ray shared a news story with me right about bedtime. I confess to letting it sink in too deeply. It is easy to let the news steal our joy and take our eyes off of what is actually true eternally.

Isaiah 40 puts the news into perspective with questions like:

Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,
Or as His counselor has informed Him?
With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding?
And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge
And informed Him of the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40:13-14

On our way home from church yesterday, Ray and I noticed the river sparkling on perhaps the prettiest fall day yet this year. This weekend I caught glimpses of plowing in the field across the road. Hills surround us in every direction. Evidence that no one is God’s counselor, that He needs to consult with no one, and  that no one taught Him knowledge or informed Him of the way of understanding is ever before my eyes.

As an introduction to Isaiah’s questions in verses 13 and 14, he first asks another one. A photo-taking drive that I took yesterday illustrates his question.

Isaiah 40:12

Isaiah goes on to say:

He it is who reduces rulers to nothing,
Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
Isaiah 40:23

Among the many things Jesus is to us, He is the perfect example of trusting God when it seems that the world is going crazy. His own family had wondered what in the world He was doing. His own religious leaders were against Him. A powerful government took His life. Through it all He trusted His Father, the Father that He called our Father, too.

God knows what He is doing. It is our job to trust Him, but it is also our comfort and our joy and our great blessing to trust Him. The God Who made the little world outside your home and the great big world beyond it and Who sent His Son to save us all is not going to abandon us now — or ever.

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