GRASSHOPPERS

Is. 40:22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,

Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Isaiah had a good perspective about the greatness of God and the littleness of man. He said we are like grasshoppers in comparison to the immensity of the Almighty. Where did Isaiah get this perspective? It started with his calling to be a prophet. Remember what he said? “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple”. That’s it, Isaiah saw the Lord. Once you catch a glimpse of Him your perspective of man changes, you see man as God does, kind of like grasshoppers. So if you are hung up on your own accomplishments and think you are simply better than most, just one glimpse of the only great One will change all of that. Here are some thoughts from Tozer on today’s topic.

“Compared to Him, everything around us in this world shrinks in stature and significance. It is all a little business compared to Him—little churches with little preachers; little authors and little editors; little singers and little musicians; little deacons and little officials; little educators and little statesmen; little cities and little men and little things! Brethren, humankind is so smothered under the little grains of dust that make up the world and time and space and matter that we are prone to forget that at one point God lived and dwelt and existed and loved without support, without help, and without creation. Such is the causeless and self-existent God! This God with whom we deal has never had to receive anything from anybody. There is no one and nothing to whom God has ever been in debt.”
This truth hit me like a ton of bricks one day about 23 years ago. I thought I was better than most and I took credit for the accomplishments and success of our ministry. That changed in one moment on the floor at a church in Rockwall, Texas. All I know is that I caught a glimpse of God’s greatness and my smallness when the glory of the Lord fell on me that day. Church has never been the same and I have never been the same. I saw myself and everyone else as grasshoppers in a moment of time, I’m just glad Jesus loves grasshoppers.