Theological Commentary: Click Here
In this
chapter, Isaiah continues with God’s promise of the removal of favor. Their needs, like bread and water, will be
removed. Their leaders – religious,
military, and political – will be removed so that they have to lead themselves
however they can. Their sense of
community will be removed. It is a
promise of dark days ahead in almost every sense of the word.
Why does
this happen? There are many
reasons. Naturally, the major reason is
that they are no longer following the ways of the Lord. Their sins have led them astray. Since they are no longer following the Lord,
the Lord feels no need to provide.
Within this,
though, there is a greater expression. I
love verse 9. Isaiah tells us that they
are proclaiming their sin instead of hiding it.
Their faces don’t even bear their guilt.
They have no shame. They no
longer know right from wrong. They are
living as they please simply for the sake of living as they please!
God knows
that we cannot live up to the Law. That
doesn’t mean He lowers His standards, but He does realize that we aren’t going
to be perfect. He cares about our
humbleness and our honest recognition of sin.
What offends
Him is not just sin, but arrogance within our sin. We should know our sin and it should shame
us. We should desire to minimize the effects
of our sin, not boldly proclaim them upon our faces and our lives.
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