Isaiah
29 – 33
Verse 29:5 talks about Gods power:
But in an instant
your ruthless enemies, who seem too many to count,
will
become as fluttering dust, as wind-driven chaff.
“In an instant” are words I would love to
hear many times in my life. Often we tend to want that “instant” to help bail
us out of our own self-created mess. We want God to swoop in and save out
backsides in order so we can do it again. Notice this time is after a long period
without God in the mix. They were suffering and finally figuring out where they
needed to turn to in life.
Often, if we got instantly bailed out every time we messed
up, the end results would be we would end up in the same boat shortly
afterwards. I know that has been my case in life. My first “bailout” was short
lived as I did not end the credit cards, but started to use them more wisely.
Please note when you have $225,000 in credit cards that cannot be “used
wisely”. I continued to spend over what we brought in and eventually when the
revenue slowed my credit bubble popped. Now 6 years later I have learned to
spend less than you make and keep doing it.
Verse 30:12 is God talking directly to Israel:
But the Holy One of Israel says,
Eternal One:
Because you refused to accept this truth, My word and purpose,
and trusted instead in deceit and manipulation, you will fall.
This
again gets to the root of the problem; people are not accepting the truth. The
world is getting more and more that way today, where we reject God’s truth only
to form what we believe is our own. Science and Creation are one of those
debates that are ongoing and are pushing God out of the equation. See
randomness is what science believes as truth and therefore means no God. I
could write a book on this subject alone, and should, but the root is we start
doubting God and his presence in the world.
We
are being “spanked” or will be soon for our rejection of God’s truth. I hope
this isn’t the final one since that will be very ugly.
I will not post this,
but look at verse 33:1 and think about how the banks are run today. I expect
this will be a problem real soon, if it hasn’t already started. The banks did
risky loans and are getting “bailed out” by the government. Eventually that
will end and they will be not able to find more money and the house of cards
will collapse.
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