I've made it through Isaiah in my Scripture reading this year. As I read, I noticed two broad stroke themes laced throughout the book. Number one, your idols are worse than worthless. Number two, I (the Lord God) will save you. I've needed to hear this message, because, like the children of Israel, I am good at worshiping (ordering my life around) things that are not God. And also because I cannot fix myself. No matter how hard I try, or how much I am able to change various behaviors, or even attitudes, my heart is still wicked. Praise God that He is able to restore what is broken!
O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD. For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
Isaiah 2:5-8
For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed. I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Isaiah 61:8-11
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