Who has scooped up the ocean in his two hands, or measured the sky between his thumb and little finger, Who has put all the earth’s dirt in one of his baskets, weighed each mountain and hill?
Who could ever have told God what to do or taught him his business?
What expert would he have gone to for advice, what school would he attend to learn justice? What god do you suppose might have taught him what he knows, showed him how things work?
Why, the nations are but a drop in a bucket, a mere smudge on a window. Watch him sweep up the islands like so much dust off the floor!
There aren’t enough trees in Lebanon nor enough animals in those vast forests to furnish adequate fuel and offerings for his worship.
All the nations add up to simply nothing before him— less than nothing is more like it. A minus.
So who even comes close to being like God? To whom or what can you compare him?
from Isaiah 40:12-17, The Message//Remix
Take some time and read this to your children. Talk it through. Discuss what the language means. Talk about the word pictures. Try substituting "Colorado" for Lebanon; the point is still the same: God is AMAZING! There is no one like our God. Not even close.
