Isaiah - Verse By Verse

Isaiah - Day 61

versebyverse | July 27, 2008 17:11

Scripture:  Isaiah 3:8 (NIV):  "Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling:  their words and deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence."

Thought:  To me, as a nation, too many of our "words and deeds" today are definitely "against the LORD."

Question:  Am I "defying" God's "glorious presence?"

As a Christian I may sometimes feel as though I am staggering and falling.  Yet God is with me.  True failure is for those who resist God--not those who obey Him and seek Him.  Satan delights in turning everything upside down, doesn't he?  The truly weak ones are those who energetically oppose God.  For a time they may appear to prosper, but in the end, they will come to desperation.  (Perhaps the inverse is true for Christians:  today some of us may appear defeated and desperate, but in the end, we prosper and succeed.)  It's interesting to me that the only way the rebels can demonstrate their defiance is in a position of staggering and falling.  Their independence is so valuable to them that they maintain it at all costs--even to the point of collapse.  Defiant to the end, they fall, hating God's very presence with them.

What does it really mean to "defy His glorious presence"?  Webster defines "defy" as:  "to resist or disregard openly or boldly, to oppose or invite to combat."  These rebels actually preferred to fight against God's "glorious presence", or, as we have seen in earlier verses, against "the spendor of His majesty" (Isaiah 2:10; 2:19; 2:21), with open disregard, disrespect, hatred, rebellion and resistance.  No wonder their cities and nation fell!  What a warning for us today!

Prayer:  Great and Splendid God of All, I bow to thank You for giving us this prophetic Word and warning.  May we hear, understand and correct our course, in this nation, before it is too late!  Amen. 

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