February 11, 2022
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Reading along with us in Isaiah? Here’s today’s reading:
Isaiah 16 (NIV)
1 Send lambs as tribute
to the ruler of the land,
from Sela, across the desert,
to the mount of Daughter Zion.
2 Like fluttering birds
pushed from the nest,
so are the women of Moab
at the fords of the Arnon.
3“Make up your mind,” Moab says.
“Render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
at high noon.
I have come to the conclusion that God is the Creator of all, of course I already knew this fact, but As I Read through my Bible, it came to me as I look up names of biblical people, and their ancestors that all the people are connected or better stated, related “God’s children”, and as “children” without guidance, tend to wander in the wrong direction, so God uses one against the other to brig them each back in line
Though he won’t do it every time, God may bless those who are faithful to him with abundant material blessings and strip those who are not faithful of theirs.
Isaiah continues his description of Moab’s coming judgement and also remains sad about their fall. Their fall was a result of pride. Even as a smaller nation pride was their downfall. God wants us to come before Him with a humble heart, which should be easy knowing everything we have comes from Him but yet pride and our love for ourselves gets in the way all too often.
Isaiah 16
The prophecy of Moab’s judgement and destruction continues in this chapter. Like I said under my comment in 15, God encourages Israel to help the refuge from Moab and even sees the promise of the coming One, the One who would come in the line of David, as having implications for them as well. Isaiah mentions himself weeping over the loss Moab is suffering and tells his people to weep too. God will always humble the proud, and bringing hardship is usually the way. But we are to be compassionate and merciful as He does. And that is sometimes hard to do when people are prideful, especially when we are aware of their pride and their boasting…..and the things that they have been prideful about are taken away…
The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
In mercy the throne will be established;
And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.”