February 5, 2022
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Reading along with us in Isaiah? Here’s today’s reading:
Isaiah 10 (NIV)
1 Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
God can use anything and anyone to complete His plan…even sinful people. He used Assyria for judgment on Israel but that didn’t excuse Assyria of it’s own deserved judgement for its sinful ways.
I love the lesson God gives regarding pride in the comparison on the ax and the saw. We need to remember that all we have comes from Him and sometimes when we have much it is easy to forget Him and become prideful much like Assyria.
Isaiah 10
Isaiah 10
Chapter 9 ended with God talking about the judgement that will come on all levels of society for the evil in Israel. Chapter 10 begins by focusing on the injustice that has beed happening and the bad laws that reflect that injustice. May we never use power or position to take advantage of the weak and vulnerable. the Bible consistently describes God as their defender and we should be too.
Isaiah continues by revealing that God has used Assyria as His instrument of judgement on Israel, but because of the pride that existed in Assyria’s leadership, making their victories about their ability and prowess, God will bring judgement on them as well. They will be held accountable for the evil they perform. They will also be decimated in miraculous ways. And that is not the only way that His sovereign hand will move: He will bring a remnant back to the Northern kingdom and will protect the Southern kingdom from destruction. God always strives to bring His people back to Him, whether it is recovering what He can from the evil they have committed, or miraculously protecting them from a superior nation. He does what He can to make the most out of what we offer Him. And naturally that works best when we give Him the most, the best…our all!
God judges those that He used to judge His own people, then He restores a remnant.
Isaiah 10