Isaiah 40 – 44

Verse 40:1 has God giving Isaiah clear and concise instructions when talking to the people:

“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

I read this and think of a movie called Ghost, this movie was about a guy who died and his ghost was trying to contact his wife. He found a “medium” that he could communicate through and went to his wife. Well he was basically saying what God said to Isaiah, but the “medium’s” (played by Whoopee Goldberg) response was: “Girl, you in danger”. This was in no way comforting to his wife.

Imagine knowing the future and having to tell people about it. What if you knew without a doubt the Jesus was returning tomorrow. Would you hide in a corner and pray or would you run around like a mad man telling everyone you could? The problem with being a mad man is you will not get much notice other than maybe a 72 hour lock down in the county “funny farm”. With something like this you have to comfort the people and not panic them. So that was what Isaiah was charged to do.

Verse 40:7 is directly conflict with Matthew 6:26 (saying birds are cared for and we are more important):

The grass withers, the flower fades
    as the breath of the Eternal One blows away.
People are no different from grass.

On one hand we are told we are important, on the other we are compared to grass. You know the same grass they walk on, that feeds their livestock and gets poo’ed on by them. So we have this view of self-importance, but are really nothing in the grand scheme of things. Sure we make our mark on the people around us, but as with Moses parting the Red Sea, we will be forgotten quickly. So although God cares about us like Matthew, in the end we are just like the grass.

 Verse 42:25 is shows the headache God is going through:

That’s why God sent all fury against Jacob
    in the shape of war, and we were burned.
    We experienced all this;
Yet we didn’t get it. God’s people did not take it to heart.

We can get hit against the head with a 2×4 and still not get it, at least that is often the case for me. God is talking to a people who have a long history of being delivered with miracles and then in short order they are worshiping false gods. I often wonder looking at today when God will just say enough.

I have postulated that Revelations has already happened. Think about Adam and Eve in Eden, they had paradise and how they fell. What if we were in Eden again and fell away again? Heck it’s happened over and over again, why not over and over again for ever? Think about it Satan as cast out of Heaven, so why not again. Sorry for the depressing though today, but we live for God and never forget and we never have to worry. Don’t let the future paralyze you, but at the same time never forget the past so we don’t repeat it in the future.