Isaiah - Verse By Verse

Isaiah - Day 59

versebyverse | July 25, 2008 17:26

Scripture:  Isaiah 3:6 (NIV):  "A man will seize one of his brothers at his father's home, and say, 'You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this heap of ruins!'"

Thought:  To me, it is because God is rejected that chaos, panic and desperation come upon us.

Question:  Have I ever known desperation and then turned to God?

This "heap of ruins" probably refers to fallen Jerusalem; or it could refer to the home of these two brothers:  a home minus their father.  The land will exist in hard conditions.  There will be disorder and shortages and violence.  People will be desperate for relief.  People will be hungering for a leader who can bring order, peace and plenty, especially after having been stripped of all other leaders.  They are ripe to see God, or are they?  Until that moment they may, as a last resort, try, in a kind of panic, to enlist any kind of leader.  The criteria will be very simple:  even a brother, whom they might be more inclined to trust, who is slightly better off because he owns a cloak while they don't, will be "seized."  The ownership of a cloak becomes the new standard of leadership!

This paints a revealing picture of deep desperation.  To what level has Jerusalem sunk?

These are the consequences of the removal of God!

Prayer:  Oh Father, may our nation learn how to turn to You so that if and when a day of desperation like this comes, we will know Who is Our Maker and Savior!  Amen.   

 

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