reposting

from my favorite blog (i'm borderline obsessed). if you haven't read ray, do it!

whom did he consult? isaiah 40:14

“Both before and after his elevation as king, and even in the act of creation itself, marduk [the high-god of babylon] did not act alone, but only on the advice of ea [marduk's father].” -r. whybray, the heavenly counsellor in isaiah

the pagan gods worked by committee. the biblical Lord of heaven and earth acts alone, out of his own exuberant all-sufficiency.

compulsive polytheists that we are, it is unsettling when we fall into the arms of God as our only hope. but inevitably, God takes us there. we find ourselves in places where God is all we have, and there we discover that “he gives power to the faint” (isaiah 40:29).

-ray ortlund