sorry girls >< i'm really bad at posting on tuesday...
anyway,i just wanted to share with you all today about how reading through isaiah has really been giving me a a really strong picture of who God is. through all the past couple passages in which God issued challenge after challenge to the idols, i have been seeing how God is so glorious and zealous for his name. i get this mental image of God pleading with all these blind and deaf people heedlessly worshipping idols made of wood or precious metal, saying “why on earth are you bowing down to these things that are made out of the exact same material as what you make a fire out of!? i’m the one who created those things! come to me, please, i’m the only one who can protect you, i’m the only one with any power in this world, come to me, please. i love you.”
from my quiet time today:
- i had to catch up on yesterday's BRP too, and as i was reading through isaiah 47 and revelation 17 i thought it was really cool seeing how the two prophesies about the end of Babylon, and how God is going to destroy them, parallel each other. i wonder if Babylon is literally the city of Bablyon (because that's what it seems like in isaiah) or symbolically stands for something very evil (which is what it seems like in revelation)?
- i love the last part of isaiah 48
12 "Listen to me, O Jacob,
Israel, whom I have called:
I am he;
I am the first and I am the last.
13 My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,
and my right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summon them,
they all stand up together.
14 "Come together, all of you, and listen:
Which of the idols has foretold these things?
The LORD's chosen ally
will carry out his purpose against Babylon;
his arm will be against the Babylonians. [a]
15 I, even I, have spoken;
yes, I have called him.
I will bring him,
and he will succeed in his mission.
16 "Come near me and listen to this:
"From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret;
at the time it happens, I am there."
And now the Sovereign LORD has sent me,
with his Spirit.
17 This is what the LORD says—
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
"I am the LORD your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go.
18 If only you had paid attention to my commands,
your peace would have been like a river,
your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been like the sand,
your children like its numberless grains;
their name would never be cut off
nor destroyed from before me."
20 Leave Babylon,
flee from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy
and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;
say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."
21 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
he made water flow for them from the rock;
he split the rock
and water gushed out.
22 "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."
that's all from me for now! :) pray for my stats 350 exam tomorrow! hahah. hope you all are having a blessed week.
erica
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