Who Can Instruct the Lord?

Scripture:

Isaiah 40:13 "Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as His counselor?"

Observation:

Isaiah asks a powerful question here as he refers to the awesomeness of God.  It goes on to say that He weighs the islands in His hands and before Him all nations become nothing.  He says the nations are like dust on God's scales.  In today's language Isaiah says, "Who do you think you are telling an all-powerful God what to do and how to do it?"  We are not God's counselor and He doesn't need our opinions.

Application:

Most of the time when we approach the Lord, we come to Him as people who think we know what is best for us.  We have our list of what the Lord needs to do and how He needs to do it in our lives.  We act like we know better than Him how to answer the prayers on our hearts and we have no problem telling Him how to do it.  "Who can instruct the Lord?" is a powerful question.  As a parent of teenagers I am beginning to see how God feels on this.  As a parent of teens sometimes we see them making bad choices or doing things that, because of experience, we know a better way, yet they choose to do it their way thinking mom and dad are old and don't understand.  Then they get into problems and call on us to bail them out when we tried to tell them and save them much headache.  God wants us to trust Him with our lives.  Instead of telling Him how He needs to answer our prayers, we need to come humbly before Him and ask Him to show us the way.

Prayer:

Lord, I don't want to instruct You.  You laid the foundations of the earth and weigh the mountains in Your hands.  You are my creator and without You I wouldn't even be alive.  Help me to trust You more than I trust myself.  Help me to humble myself and stop trying to tell You how to run things down here.

Your Son,
Jeff