The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Isaiah 2:21,
"Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?"
As the Lord brings his indictment against "the descendants of Jacob", verse 6, he takes note of their pride and arrogance. He warns them a day is coming when they will be humbled, "The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled)", verse 12.
The Lord tells them, "Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?"
I would argue we suffer from the very same malady today. As we look about, it can't be helped but to notice that God has been dethroned in the eyes of many and mankind has displaced him there.
The Scriptures declare that life comes from God and is therefore sacred; mankind claims they will decide who lives and dies through the practice of abortion. The Scriptures declare that God has created mankind as male and female; mankind claims gender is fluid and they will decide whatever they want to be. The Scriptures declare that the Son of God created the world (John 1:3) and maintains it all (Hebrews 1:2-3); mankind claims the ability to restructure weather patterns, the ocean levels, etc. and that they are the sole custodians of Mother Earth. The Scriptures declare the righteousness of God to be the sole origin and source of morality and virtue; mankind declares his own perverse, twisted and ever-changing rules for living.
You get the drift here. Mankind's delusion of displacing God will be forever destroyed when the Son of God returns on a day he has in store. "I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. 'He will rule them with an iron scepter.' He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." Revelation 19:11-16.
"Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?"
As the Lord brings his indictment against "the descendants of Jacob", verse 6, he takes note of their pride and arrogance. He warns them a day is coming when they will be humbled, "The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty,
for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled)", verse 12.
The Lord tells them, "Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?"
I would argue we suffer from the very same malady today. As we look about, it can't be helped but to notice that God has been dethroned in the eyes of many and mankind has displaced him there.
The Scriptures declare that life comes from God and is therefore sacred; mankind claims they will decide who lives and dies through the practice of abortion. The Scriptures declare that God has created mankind as male and female; mankind claims gender is fluid and they will decide whatever they want to be. The Scriptures declare that the Son of God created the world (John 1:3) and maintains it all (Hebrews 1:2-3); mankind claims the ability to restructure weather patterns, the ocean levels, etc. and that they are the sole custodians of Mother Earth. The Scriptures declare the righteousness of God to be the sole origin and source of morality and virtue; mankind declares his own perverse, twisted and ever-changing rules for living.
You get the drift here. Mankind's delusion of displacing God will be forever destroyed when the Son of God returns on a day he has in store. "I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. 'He will rule them with an iron scepter.' He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." Revelation 19:11-16.
Woe to all the deluded who think they have displaced God on his throne!
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