1-20-11 Thursday, 5:40 am Springfield, snowing, 22 degrees, public schools just cancelled.
The Honduras team has made it safely to Kansas City, and is at the gate preparing to board their 6 am flight to Houston. They drove 6 hours through the snow last night and got a “nap and a shower” at their hotel. They will be in Honduras a little after noon today. I am cancelling the Peer Mentoring group and the church office will be closed. It is a very pretty snow coming down from the northeast.
Isaiah 7
God instructs the prophet to go with his son to meet king Ahaz and deliver the message that Jerusalem will be protected from the attack of Israel and Damascus (Ephraim). Ahaz is invited to ask for a sign, which he refuses to do. Isaiah announces that “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: Behold a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call his name Immanuel.”
The chapter continues with the prophecy that God will “shave with a razor hired from regions beyond the Euphrates" … and Judah will be reduced, but those who survive will have curds and honey. God’s judgment on his unfaithful and untrusting people is integral to the message of hope and salvation that Isaiah brings.
What are the consequences today for lack of faith and trusting an entity other than God? This is a great question to ask for the day in which I live. Is it a national humiliation? Is it a spiritual malaise? Will it include an economic collapse or military conflict? I want to walk with Isaiah through these days and trust completely the hand of God to lead, guide and protect. Thank you Lord for your Word, its promises and application to life in 2011.
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