Isaiah vividly celebrates the greatness of God. Isaiah 40:18 (NLT) To whom can you compare God? What image can you find to resemble him? Isaiah 40:12,15,17 (NLT) 12 Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?…15 No, for all the nations of the world are but a drop in the bucket. They are nothing more than dust on the scales. He picks up the whole earth as though it were a grain of sand. …17 The nations of the world are worth nothing to him. In his eyes they count for less than nothing— mere emptiness and froth. Incomparable to . Isaiah 40:18 (NLT) …What image can you find to resemble him? Incomparable to . Isaiah 40:22 (NLT) 22 God sits above the circle of the earth. The people below seem like grasshoppers to him! He spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them. Incomparable to world . Isaiah 40:23 (NLT) 23 He judges the great people of the world and > * brings them all to nothing. 24 They hardly get started, barely taking root, when he blows on them and they wither. The wind carries them off like chaff. Incomparable to . Isaiah 40:26 (NLT) 26 Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing. Isaiah 40:25 (NLT) 25 “To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?” asks the Holy One Your human words, philosophies or comparisons are too to explain the God of the Bible. Isaiah 40:21 (NLT) 21 Haven’t you heard? Don’t you understand? Are you deaf to the words of God— the words he gave before the world began? Are you so ignorant? Psalm 135:4–6,13 (NLT) 4 For the Lord has chosen …, Israel for his own special treasure. 5 I know the greatness of the Lord— that our Lord is greater than any other god. 6 The Lord does whatever pleases him throughout all heaven and earth, and on the seas and in their depths. 13 Your name, O Lord, endures forever; your fame, O Lord, is known to every generation. CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION 1. If you believed in a god as a child, what do you recall learning about it’s character or attributes? a. — Or what was your strongest impression of what God is like? 2. The prophet Isaiah announced that God is incomparable to the nations, idols, world rulers, humans, stars — which of these strikes you most & why? 3. Why do you think skeptical humans are still using their limited words, philosophies or comparisons to explain or diminish the God of the Bible?