Isaiah 21-23
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In chapter 22 Isaiah calls Jerusalem the “Valley of Vision”
because God had sent many prophets to them, and message after message from God
they kept failing to hear. There
were a couple things that stood out to me in this chapter. First of all verse 4: “Therefore I [Isaiah] said, ‘Turn away
from me; let me weep bitterly. Do
not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”
God wants us to care about the things He cares about. He wants us to care about our cities
and our nations; He wants us to see the needs and destruction in the people around
us. And instead of looking the
other way or saying, “That’s really sad” as we continue to go about our daily
normalcy, we should be heart broken, to “weep bitterly” and seek God for His
intervention as well as His guidance in how we can be used to make an
impact.
Then a little later in that same chapter, in verses 8-11, Isaiah
describes how Jerusalem had assessed their weaknesses in their defenses. They stored up water and strengthened
the wall, which in themselves were not bad moves to make, but not once did they
look to God. “You looked and
looked and looked, but you never looked to Him who gave you this city, never
once consulted the One who has long had plans for this city.”
Instead of trying to patch up my own weaknesses, I need to look to
the strength of my creator. Apart
from Him I am limited, but with God all things are possible. “For if their purpose or activity is of
human origin, it will fail. But if
it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men.” (Acts 5:39)
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