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Discipleship Focus: Character
- Character: Having the interior life that is necessary to support the work that God sets before a person. It is hearing from God and obeying. It is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.
What a
horrible chapter to read if you are looking for good leadership! Isaiah looks at the leadership of Israel and
sees what looks like a bunch of drunks.
They think they are wise, but they are fools. They think they are invincible but they are
unable to see their own lack of ability.
They think that they can make great decisions but in reality the
judgment is skewed and they simply cannot see clearly. Sounds like drunkenness to me!
Of
course, the leaders aren’t literally drunk.
They are figuratively drunk on themselves. They are drunk on their own desires. They are drunk on their ability to deny
reality and the destruction of Assyrian and eventually of Babylon. They are drunk because they don’t have enough
character to see reality and they only want to acknowledge what they want to
see.
But look
at what God says in the middle of this chapter.
God will measure the leadership of Israel against true leadership. God will set up a plumb line against these
horribly blind leaders. Who is that
plumb line? The righteous. The true plumb line in this world are the people
of character. Who does God truly
respect? God respects those who do what
is right and who see reality even when it is easier to pursue our own desires
and see what we want to see.
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