Isaiah 45-47
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A couple things from today’s reading:
First – the similar wording yet opposite
perspective found in chapters 46 and 47:
In chapter 46 God says, “I am God, and
there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.” In chapter 47, God says to Babylon,
“You say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.”
When you believe in God and no other, He
will carry you and save you. When
you trust only in yourself, disaster will come and you won’t know what to
do.
Then in chapter 46 another play on
opposite examples struck me:
God speaks of false idols that people
would make themselves and would literally have to carry them around. “The images [idols] that are carried
about are burdensome.” In contrast
God says to remember that we don’t have to do that – He is the one who carries
us! “Listen to me…you whom I have
upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I
am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue
you.”
“I have made you and I will carry you.” –
Love, God.
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