Isaiah 28 -- It Can NEVER Happen To ME!

Isaiah is trying to get the people of Jerusalem to understand that what happened to Samaria will happen to them if they don't straighten up and obey God.  The priests and prophets in Jerusalem were remaining just as drunken as those in Samaria!  But they also mocked God and His word, saying that Isaiah was talking to them as though they were little children.  Their intellectual pride was writing checks their bodies would soon have to cash.

Finally, Isaiah said, "If you will not listen to my simple speech in your own language, God will speak to you with a language you do not understand.  He will send the army of Assyria, whose language is foreign to you."

"Their faith was in their political alliances and not in God," my commentary said.  Yet they also suffered from the delusion that God would not judge them, because He'd saved them before, in the days of Joshua and David.  But those men were godly leaders following God's will.  According to Isaiah, God was about to do "a strange work" -- something He didn't often do.  He would use the enemy to fight against His own people!

Perhaps the most important lesson was that the people of Jerusalem saw it happening to Samaria, but this didn't bring them to repentance.  "When we start saying to ourselves, 'It can never happen to me!' -- it is sure to happen!" my commentary said.  The minute we start feeling bulletproof, we are headed for disaster.  After all, pride goes before a fall.

Father, help us to take the lessons You are showing us in the lives of others and learn not to go down those same roads.  Show us how vulnerable we are.  Help us to depend solely on You.

Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford