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Welcome back for day three of week five of our look at the book of Isaiah. We're
going to end our look today at how God's true comfort is shown in our lives from
Isaiah 40. We've looked at the truths that God comforts our guilt with His
grace, He comforts our frustration with His way, He comforts our days by being
our shepherd.

There's a fifth truth in this chapter and that is that God comforts our worries
by displaying His power. He helps us to see our worries for what they really are
when we look at His power for what it really is. Part of the comforted life is
recognizing the wonderful, awesome truth about who God really is.

Because when you recognize this truth, this simple principle emerges. Don't
compare God to anyone. Don't compare God to anything.

You worship God as unique. He is incomparable. I'm going to read in this
particular point a good number of verses from the book of Isaiah chapter 40
because when you look at these verses they simply speak for themselves about the
power of God.

There are in this chapter some of the most amazing verses about God's power than
there are in all the rest of the Bible. So let's just walk through this. In
verses 12 to 14 we're reminded don't compare God to His creation, worship Him as
creator.

That's how He deals with your worries. Don't compare Him to His creation,
worship Him as creator, 12 to 14. No, He's our creator.

We can trust Him with our worries. And then verses 15 to 17 remind us don't
compare Him to the nations. You worship Him as almighty.

Verses 15 to 17 say this. So the worries that we have in this world, when we
compare them to the greatness of God, even the greatest of nations is nothing to
Him. So even the greatest of your worries, He can deal with that worry.

And then in verse 18 and verses 21 to 26 we're reminded don't compare Him to an
image, to an idol. Worship Him as God. And then in verse 18 and verses 21 to 26
we're reminded don't compare Him to an image, to an idol.

Worship Him as God. Let me read those verses. He brings princes to naught, and
He reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root
in the ground than He blows on them, and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps
them away like chaff. "To whom will you compare Me, or who is My equal? " says
the Holy One.

Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out
the starry host one by one and calls them each by name.

Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. That
is the power of Almighty God. And don't miss that invitation in verse 26.

Lift your eyes. Lift your eyes to the heavens. Lift your eyes to God.

The way to deal with the greatest of worries is to look to the greatness of God.
That's what prayer does. You cast all your cares upon Him by looking to Him.

You in prayer give all your anxieties to Him, and then you recognize His
greatness and He calms your heart. When you face the difficulties of life in
this world, you can try to comfort yourself, or you can try to receive God's
comfort. To comfort yourself is compare yourself to others.

We do this little trick where we say, "Well, my worries aren't so bad because
look at their worries. My worries aren't so bad because look at the mess they've
made in their lives. We make ourselves feel better by other people's tragedies
and crises and difficulties.

" Well, obviously that's not going to last because one day you're going to face
a worry, you're going to face a difficulty that's the greatest one you've ever
seen, the greatest one that's around you. Now you need something greater. So you
receive God's comfort.

You lift your eyes to the incomparable God. Now there's a sixth truth in Isaiah
chapter 40, in the most familiar verses of Isaiah chapter 40 to most of us,
about how God gives comfort into our lives. The sixth truth is God comforts our
weakness by giving us strength.

This power that we just talked about, this greatness of God, God has decided to
use all of that power to give you strength. So Isaiah 40, 27 to 31, "Why do you
say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel? My way is hidden from the Lord.

My cause is disregarded by my God. Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth. He will
not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives
strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

Young youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. But those who
hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles.

They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint. " He's
talking in these verses to those who are weary and tired.

In fact, he uses those two words together four times in these few verses. So if
you're tired or weary, these are the verses for you in the scripture. Even
youths, he says, grow tired and weary.

You don't have to wait till you get old to grow tired and weary. There are
things in this world that wear us out, that tire us. But God never grows tired
or weary.

So he says here, "Those who hope in the Lord, who never grows tired or weary,
they will renew their strength. " And he talks about what will happen. He says,
"You will have strength to soar, to face life's biggest challenges.

You will have strength to run, to emerge victorious from life's wearying trials.
You will have strength to walk, to endure with hope and with strength the
dailiness of life, strength to walk through that. Those that hope in the Lord
will have all of those things in their life.

" This word, those that hope in the Lord, you've heard it maybe said, "Those who
wait upon the Lord. " And really, both of those ideas are in this word. That
word has to do with hopeful waiting.

Waiting on God instead of waiting for the answer. Waiting in hope rather than
waiting in discouragement. How do you wait?

That's one of the questions in these verses. My way is hidden. My cause is
disregarded by God.

That's what the people of Israel were saying at the beginning of these verses.
Do you wait in depression or anger? Where is God in the midst of this?

Or do you wait on God? Do you hope in God during the times of waiting, knowing
He's with you, knowing that He has an answer? Waiting is trusting, trusting.

Those who trust in the Lord, they will mount up. They will rise up like an eagle
rises up, soaring on the winds. When an eagle soars on the winds, you don't see
a lot of movement of its wings.

It just stretches out its wings, and because God has designed the eagle so that
it could catch the updraft of the winds, it soars. God has designed your soul to
catch the updraft of His power, of His love. So what do you need to do to begin
to catch that power in your life?

You trust. Like the eagle stretches out its wings, you stretch out your arms,
your hands, your heart up to God and say, "God, I simply trust in You in this
moment. " Waiting is trusting.

So right now, let's trust in Him. Just say, "Jesus Christ, I trust in You. I'm
not waiting on myself, I'm not waiting on the answer, I'm not waiting on
somebody else.

I want to wait on You. I put my hope in You, not in the circumstances, not in
anybody else, and not even in me. I put my hope in You.

" So even during those times when I feel at my weakest, I pray that You would
give me strength. Maybe it's not the strength to feel strong, but it's the
strength to see You strongly working in my life, to see You doing things that no
one else could do, to see You giving hope where no one else could give hope.
Right now, Jesus Christ, I put my hope in You.

In Jesus' name, I pray these things. Amen. Well tomorrow, we're going to look
together at the four words that give the strength of God's comfort in every
circumstance of life.