To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with Him? (Isaiah 40:18)

O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder,Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,Thy power throughout the universe displayed,Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee,How great Thou art, How great Thou art!(Stuart K. Hine)

The man who wrote that gospel song stretched his mind and expanded his vision until he had at least some conception of the majesty of God. He used words like "awesome wonder ... all the worlds ... [and] rolling thunder." In the end, all he could say was, "How great Thou art, How great Thou art!"

The prophet Isaiah spoke in much the same spirit to the people of Israel. He, too, stretched his imagination to the limit to try and put into words…