Be Still And Know

Isaiah 2:2-3 The previous chapter makes for scary reading. God is hopping mad at the unfaithfulness of his people. They have comprehensively let him down, and they are paying a terrible price for it. God’s blunt language is enough to make anyone blush as he comments: “See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers. Once like pure silver you have become like worthless slag” (Isaiah 1:21-22). It was a very grim predicament, but God still had a vision for how things could be in the future. The vision focuses on Jerusalem as the place which would transform everything. It would be the focus of peace and unity and people would stream there from all over the world. Yes, streams can flow uphill when God is at work! In Jerusalem, there would be teaching and the result would be that people would walk in God’s ways. That is to say the teaching would lead to action. There is nothing more dangerous than to study the Bible and to re