Isaiah 40:11 Gentle and majestic
“He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; He will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young” (ESV).
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all” (ESV).
I am drawn to this picture and to the two verses above. Together the verses describe the gentleness and the majesty of our God, the Lord of all, the Creator, the one who proves His strength and His gentleness by his love. The picture shows the grass-covered meadow with grazing cattle in the foreground, while the background literally shouts of the majesty and grandeur of the mountains and spires. In one picture we see the extremes of landscape and in the Scriptures quoted above, we see the extremes of the personality of our God.
Our Lord is our gentle shepherd that gathers us in His arms and gently holds us in peace. He is also the grand God of creation, who created all we can see and all we cannot see by His Word, His spoken Word. He owns all of it. He rules all of it. Yet, with all of His grandeur, He knows you and He knows me. He not only knows who we are, he knows all about us, our needs, our desires, our wants, our problems, our shortcomings, our sins, and our love for Him. I am overcome by the knowledge that the King of the universe wants to hold me in His arms and listen to what I have to say. He is honestly interested in my interests, but most of all, He wants me to know that He wants to spend eternity with me and with you. Each of us is His favorite, for “God shows no partiality (Romans 2:11 ESV).