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I am both near-sighted and far-sided and middle-sided all at the same time.

I can sit back from something and look. I draw near something and look because I am both things all at once.

I'm a God who is close. I'm a God who is close.

I'm a God who is far away.

There is no getting away from my presence. Throughout the 40th chapter of Isaiah, there are two things, two attributes of God that are both being showcased and they're being showcased gorgeously in juxtaposition.

I mean, going back and forth, volleying between them and they don't seem like they could

belong to the same person, but they belong to the one and only God.

And what are those two things?

Tell me the words.

Transcendence and eminence. And I want you to tell me in short form, what is the definition of the word transcendent? Existing outside of time

and space. Imminent is what? Present within time and space.

So in all this wildness we see in Isaiah chapter 40, he is going back and forth between

telling us that he is the transcendent one over and over.

And I love it in the NET in that translation, when it says over and over,

it says it in more of our ESV and NIV terminology, there is no other, there is none like me.

And the NET is, I have no peer.

I have no peer.

So he's telling us, I am creator of all things. I sit and view the world and the

universe from my throne. I am above all things and I am completely self-existent. When he gave

his name to Moses, when Moses said, what am I to tell them that your name is? He said, you tell them

I am, that I am, that I am. And it means I am the self-existent one. I have no need. God is not

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