Year 6, Day 30: Isaiah 46

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Discipleship Focus: Provision

• Provision: God gives us what we truly need.  God knows our needs better than we can know them.  We learn to trust God to provide for us.

In Isaiah 46 we continue to hear God’s rant against idolatry.  We really need to consider why it is that God rants for so long against idolatry.  I think the answer is really simple.  God rants against idolatry because human beings are so prone to it!  We make idols out of the work of our hands.  We make idols out of our dreams.  We make idols of the culture around us.  We can make an idol out of just about anything.

The interesting thing about this chapter is God’s logic.  When we create an idol and set it up as an idol in our life, can it actually do anything for us?  Can an idol genuinely make us happy?  Can an idol of our own creating generate satisfaction and purpose in our life?  Can an idol provide for our needs?  Can an idol hear our prayers, comfort our sorrows, and carry us in his hands?  No.

The danger of idolatry is that we lose sight of God’s provision.  In fact, I think this is a cyclical pattern.  Because we focus on priorities that may be out of order, we lose sight of God’s provision.  This means we have to try and provide for ourselves.  But that only causes us to lose more sight of God’s provision and the cycle grows.

Only God can provide for us.  Only God can meet our needs.  Only God can genuinely satisfy us.

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