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Isaiah - Day 37

versebyverse | June 19, 2008 19:39

Scripture:  Isaiah 2:6 (NIV):  "You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob.  They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans."

Thought:  To me, our nation is guilty of the same failures of Israel:  leaders abandoning the masses to their own devices which are totally against God.

Question:  Do I prefer to "join hands" with unbelievers, or remain faithful to God?

God grieves over the deterioration of His people.  Here He charges the capitol city and province of Judah, (look at the context beginning in Isaiah 2:1), with the responsibility of failed leadership.  All the people have sunk down low and become ike their pagan neighbors by following Jerusalem's lead.  Divination and superstition are common replacements for God's truth and God's Word.  The abandonment of the masses of people by irresponsible leadership dismays God.  Abandonment is a kind of rejection.  The people deserve better leaders!  The human heart needs some kind of compass.  How ridiculous to abandon The Creator and trust intead in guessology and random chance.  But that is what Jerusalem and Israel have done.  We have done it, too!

The "Philistines" were Israel's arch enemy, yet here Israel has embraced the enemy's false "religion."  The "superstitions from the East" are competing with Jehovah's truth in Judah, the Promised Land.  Outside influences are encroaching and taking over.  Are we seeing this happen today?

Prayer:  Father, open my eyes to see exactly where my loyalties lie.  Please help me always to shun the false and cling to Your Truth--as revealed in Jesus Christ.  Amen. 

 

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