8 weeks down and now we’ve completed 2 books! I hope you are getting a lot out of the readings. It is amazing how God continues to reveal verses to me that I’ve read over time and time again. Continue seeking God in these daily readings.
Praise God that we are in the much easier to read section of Isaiah! Chapter 40 begins what scholars call the “book of comfort”. It is filled with promises of God’s loving restoration of Israel and speaks of God’s salvation to come through Jesus. One of my favorite chapters of scripture is Isaiah 44, which speaks of the foolishness of idols. It’s great to read and see the fallacy of idols exposed, but it is also a great challenge to us. While we may not carve out idols from wood or shape them from metal, there are many things in life that we put ahead of God. There are any of a number of things that we give worth to that really have no eternal value and can give us nothing in return. We can get lured into believing that money will bring happiness, but it won’t. Neither will selfish living or good deeds or power. While these may at times give us a false sense of worth, their ‘blessings’ are fleeting. We’re left with nothing but emptiness and a continued longing for worthiness.
We worship what we think will give us worth. But all the ‘worth’ of the world will never really fill the need of our souls. Our true worth is an eternal worth that can only be given by God. Jesus came to give us worth – to be the way by which God adopts us into His family. Our worth is in Christ alone, and nothing of this world will replace that worth.
We can either continue to see after worthless idols, or we can seek our worth in Christ.
