When God Gets Personal
When God Gets Personal Isaiah 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? Isaiah 40:28 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. Yesterday was the first time I noticed the differences between these repeated phrases. In verse 21, God addresses the whole nation of Israel or perhaps even the whole world (which is often addressed in the second main section of Isaiah), but in verse 28, the Lord addresses the individual: thou . Singular, an individual. The promise here is to the individual believer who chooses to focus on the Lord above all else, who waits upon the Lord in faith. Isaiah 40:28-31 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 ...