Isaiah 64:2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!

How do you look at God’s power? Do you try to find ways your brain can imagine it by comparing it to earthly things?

When we try to understand things, we try to visualise them in ways we have seen other things happen in our lives – that way we can accept it as being power or might we can relate to.

But God’s power and might is so far beyond what we can explain in our earthly ways. We can look into the pit of a fire and think that is hotter than we could understand, but that is imposing physical limits on a power which is without bounds!

Isaiah 61:11 For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.

When seeds are planted, we almost take it for granted they will be able to extract goodness from the soil and grow into the plants we desire…

So why do we not take that same approach when we plant seeds of faith and seeds of the gospel? Why do we have doubts they will not germinate and spring up?

God has promised the seeds will germinate and grow into something He has planned for already – we just need to be planting those seeds with faith and expecting them to grow, not hoping, expecting!

Mark 6:34 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

A far cry from our modern society where the paparazzi seems to have taken over from the crowds of well-wishers and oppress the people they are chasing!

Jesus did not see problems; He stood up and took the opportunity presented to Him to spread the gospel and heal the sick!

He saw a people in need without a real leader and not a crowd of people wanting something for nothing!

Will you have compassion on the people around you today?