Description: Gold among the clouds., shining Light and Truth in darkness
I'm half-way through the study of Isaiah I've been working on since mid-January. Here is a summary of chapters 43-47. How blessed are we to read these Scriptures...the very words of God through Isaiah's mouth.
CHAPTER 43 : This chapter portrays one of the greatest ironies ever. Israel rebelled against God when God loved and cared for them as a good Father would his own children. So God punished them for awhile for their rebelliousness. However, He would redeem them and rebuild them eventually. God did the same thing for their ancestors in Egypt during the days of Pharaoh.
For us today: children who are rebellious often want forgiveness without punishment or responsibility for their actions. But as a child of God, we need to confess our sins/wrongs, seek Him, and accept His forgiveness. Then we need to learn from it. We also can then show the Lord gratitude for His forgiveness and this is an example to the secular world.