Read: Isaiah 28:14-30:11; Galatians 3:23-4:31; Psalm 62:1-12; Proverbs 23:19-21
Isaiah addressed the leaders of Israel and the capital of Samaria. They made an agreement with the Assyrian armies and it would be to their downfall. Jesus is the tested stone, the sure foundation, the precious cornerstone who would alone bring justice and righteousness. Even though they had made a covenant with the enemy, God said that this covenant would not stand in the end. He would get them back but first they would have to suffer the consequences of their poor decisions. Then the Lord would do his “strange work”, his “alien task”. He would do something so marvelous, no one would believe it. God knows just how to make their hearts fertile again and he would do that.
To Jerusalem (Ariel), God said they would be besieged and brought down. But in his timing, God would come and fight for Jerusalem and get her back also.
God knew that the people would not understand these words because they did not have the spiritual hearts to see or hear God’s words. His words were sealed from them. They had God in a box and thought he was like them. But, one day, the ears of the deaf would hear God and the eyes of the blind would see God. The ones who refused to hear or see would go to the world to understand and find no help. They would beg for a good prophecy from their false prophets and beg the real prophets not to tell what they saw. They would scorn repentance and go after pleasure and anything that offered an escape.
Paul speaks to us and the Galatians and tells us that we are no longer in bondage to the rules and the job of making ourselves presentable to God. We are sons, not slaves, so we join Jesus in his inheritance.
Lord, may we live with the mindset of being your son and daughter, heiress of your kingdom, not mere slaves of sin.
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