“When I repent, I realize that I am literally helpless; i know all through me that I am not worthy to even bear His shoes. Have I repented like that? Or is there a lingering suggestion of standing up for myself? … John doesn’t speak of the baptism of the Holy Ghost as an experience, but as a work performed by Jeuss Christ … Get to the margin where He does everything. -Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, August 22.
Isaiah 24:1-2
1 Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
2 people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
There is not difference in people, there is no favortism by God.
Stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. If God is infinitely good, wouldn’t this desolation be a good thing? How? It makes room for change, change where people come to God and want a relationship with Him.
If the earth is bare and desolate, the only way to survive is God. He gets the credit and glory–so maybe people need to pay attention when things are good and still remember that God is in control and He gets all the credit, all the glory.
Isaiah 24:5-6
5 The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the permanent covenant.
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.
Could this be talking of present day, 2020?
Look at Isaish 24:13.
13 For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
Among the nations.
Isaiah 24:14
13 For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
The west. We are the west? America? Europe is also the west.
Isaiah 24:16
16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One.
But I said, “I waste away! I waste away!
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.
Actions speak louder than words. The actions–not even always the results–tell the character and inherent being of someone. Words slip easily off the tongue; actions tell the true story.