The Israelites also wanted a god that would give them what they wanted, when they wanted it. They wanted a god that would give them their desires and in their timeframe. The Israelites wanted a god they could control. Isaiah rebuked them for cutting down a tree and using part of it to warm themselves and with the rest making it "into a god, his carved image. He falls down before it and worships it, prays to it and says, 'Deliver me, for you are my god!'" (44:17). Israel wanted a god who could be contained in their temples and manipulated by their worship. But, the God Isaiah had seen (6:1), and the God that I know, was/is not that kind of a God.
How wonderful to know that the real God is so much greater than anything we can imagine or create. His ways and even His thoughts are so far beyond our finite minds that we can't begin to comprehend Him. When we come to Him with our problems and our difficulties, we never have to worry about whether He's big enough to handle them. Let's try to resist our desire to control God. We won't be successful, for He is an awesome God. We should rejoice in the fact that although we may not be able to understand Him, we will always be able to trust Him.
God has a better way than we do.
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