Isaiah 40:28-31 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not… I. THE DIVINE BEING AS POSSESSED OF INFINITE ENERGY. "He fainteth not, neither is weary." His most stupendous works are rather the "hidings of His power," than the manifestations of His might. The fact of God's possessing infinite energy supplies us with four guarantees — 1. A guarantee of the regularity of the physical universe. 2. A guarantee of ability to fulfil His promises. Of what avail are promises if there be no executive energy? 3. A guarantee of His power to realise His threatenings. 4. A guarantee of Christ's final enthronement. Feeble instrumentality is no argument against this view. Nor is the guilty indifference of the Church. II. THE DIVINE BEING AS POSSESSED OF INFINITE MENTAL CAPACITY. "There is no searching of His understanding." In God, therefore, there is a combination of infinite strength and infinite mind: power is under the government of intelligence! The universe is an embodied idea. Its minutest members are parts of one glorious thought. The infinite understanding of the Divine Being furnishes — 1. An assurance that the darkest providences are under the direction of infinite wisdom. 2. That no plot against His government can succeed. 3. That His plan of salvation is alone sufficient. Possessed of an understanding that is infinite, God knew the exact necessities of the human race, and provided that economy which alone could satisfy the cravings of human nature. 4. That He understands the peculiarities of every case. "Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?" These words rebuke the idea that anything can escape the Divine notice. Christ knew all the springs of life, He saw the maladies which tainted the blood and crippled the faculties of man, and at the issue of His fiat the most malignant affection retreated as if in haste and shame! 5. An assurance of eternal variety in the study of His nature. "There is no searching of His understanding." The eldest born in eternity may at this moment employ this same language; for those who have seen most of the Divine glory, confess most loudly the infinitude of His resources. Application — (1) What is your relationship to this all-glorious Being? (2) If you are out of sympathy with this all-glorious Being, what is your hope for eternity? (J. Parker, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. |
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