Today's verse is Isaiah 28:29
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts,
Which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Consider these words: Wonderful, and Excellent. One not knowing the context that they are in would rejoice and use them solely for the bases of encouragement. But what is the context in which they are found? You have forsaken promises (God promised, but the people have not received.) You have God’s Word accepted falsely (not interpreted correctly,) The Sure Foundation rejected, The priest and the prophet, drunk and wresting judgment. Thus, a people that seem to be right, but in the eyes of God, they have come short. Thus, these words: Wonderful and Excellent, are giving warning to something terrible and dire. Is this not how Jesus described the Laodiceans? Therefore, as John commanded: Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. So should we also do. Selah [Be careful to understand.] Amen.
To God be the Glory
Scott
Today’s reading is Numbers 36, Psalm 80, Isaiah 28, 2 John 1
Tomorrow’s reading will be Deuteronomy 1, Psalm 81-83, Isaiah 29, 3 John 1
I looked into the immediate context of the verse above and the instruction God had given the farmer. With the idea that the instruction was rejected for some reason. Are we also so doing, rejecting God's Word for something else?
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