Sun.’s Devo - Judgement is Coming

Read: Isaiah 30:12-33:9; Galatians 5:1-12; Psalm 63:1-11; Proverbs 23:22 God was speaking to the Jewish ambassadors who had left to go to Egypt to pay them to fight with them against the coming Assyrians. God forbade them to seek foreign help. He was their help. He told them the only way they would be saved would be to return to Him and rest in Him. But, they wouldn’t have it. The had said that Egypt would give them swift horses but the only swiftness they were going to see was the swiftness of their enemies chasing them. God waited for them to ask him for His help. Wanted to be gracious and help them. One day they would want teachers to teach them the way to go and then they would throw away their idols. Then they would be blessed. As for Egypt, God said that they horses were puny not mighty spirits. The Egyptians were mere humans, not God. The Egyptians will not be a help but God will come and he will defend the city and rescue it. God saw the day when they will repent and throw down their idols. The assyrians would be destroyed by the sword of God. At the time that Isaiah told them all this that was going to happen, nothing had happened yet. The women still enjoyed their leisure lifestyles, but God said they had a little over a year to live that way and then they would start caring. Their crops would fail and their harvest would not take place. They will have to take off their fancy dresses and put on sackcloth. The palace and the city would be destroyed and the busy towns would be empty. Wild animals would walk the streets. The wilderness would become a fertile field. The Lord then turned his attention to the destroyers, the Assyrians. They had never been destroyed by another nation before but they were going to be betrayed and destroyed. The Lord would be merciful to his people and they would trust him day by day. Jerusalem would become God’s home again. The warrior and ambassadors would weep and be bitterly disappointed because their plans failed. The Assyrians didn’t keep their treaties they had signed. They destroyed everything in their path. Paul talked to the people in Corinth about their habit of returning to the law. Some thought that to be circumcised got them favor with God. Grace redeemed them from works. Now we live by the Spirit. That pleases God. This false teaching of pleasing God through works was like a little yeast that will spread through their hearts and produce religion and false teaching. Lord, may we live by Your Spirit and please you with the faith in our hearts.