Reading Isaiah 40 for my QT on the way there was appropriate: "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.... Surely the nations...are regarded as dust on the scales.... To whom, then, will you compare God? What image will you compare Him to?... He...reduces the rulers of this world to nothing" (v. 6, 15, 18, 23). This I had in my mind while we were there. The yards and architecture is awe-inspiring; but the inside, being just the mausoleum of the Shah and his queen, felt quite empty. "All this for this?" was my thought.
I was seeing firsthand one of the Seven Wonders of the World, standing in person within its very immensity. Then in subsequent thought, the word points me to the "incomparably great power" that is our God (Eph. 1:19, end of Job). Set above all is He. My concept of God's majesty has been informed and greatened by reading Tozer's Knowledge of the Holy:
All our thoughts about Him will be less that He, and our loftiest utterances will be trivialities in comparison with Him.
The Taj was a pretty tremendous thing to see. I can say I've seen one of the most majestic man-made structures the world has to offer. Yet I am left to dwell upon this thought: "What image will you compare Him to?"
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