Isaiah 66:1-2 (NASBStr)
Thus says the Lord,
“ Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool.
Where then is a house you could build for Me?
And where is a place that I may rest?
“For My hand made all these things,
Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
“But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.
When you read the prophecy of Isaiah there is so much to marvel over and meditate upon. God has laid out His plan for His people and shown them time and time again His enduring love for them despite their timeless rebellion. That is the way God loves His people. Isaiah does have much doom and gloom (although not as much as Jeremiah, who follows Isaiah), but, it also has much insight into the God we love and who loves us in abundance more. In the above passage we see the awesomeness of God. He sits in the heavens. He uses the earth as a footstool. That makes Him a very, very BIG God. We think our buildings are big and our buildings for God are very big. Yet, He laughs at them in the above passage. Nothing can contain God, yet, He chooses to reside in the hearts of rebellious men. When God does so it is chooses to dwell in the hearts of men he has made humble and who have come to His Word with fear and trembling. Their is no casual, or common approach to God's Word that also solicits God's presences. No, in this passage we see that God will "look" on the one who knows their sin and knows God's glory. Our treatment of God's Word and our fear of it solicits the God of the universe to look upon us. We are but a speck in the dust of the dirt of creation and, yet, God looks upon us. The proud and stubborn of heart have no such promise.
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