Some beautiful music for this beautiful day - illuminating our Old Testament reading for this upcoming Sunday.

You just need to trust me on this one. Take a six-minute break from whatever you are doing, press play on the music player, close your eyes, turn up the volume, and just listen.



Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;

To whom then will you compare me, or who is my equal? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these?

He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength,mighty in power, not one is missing.

Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Now, when you hear this passage read in church on Sunday, you'll have already listened to it proclaimed to you in song. Maybe you'll get chills listening to this passage, as I always do. It is because of this piece of music that Isaiah 40 became my most favorite, most meaningful, most relied-on passage of scripture. And so I now ask you, "Have you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God. Take heart."