Today, I am reading and commenting on Isaiah 39-42.

There are several parts of today’s passage which I thought about basing what I write on, but then I came to the end of the passage.  There Isaiah writes,
“Hear, you deaf;
    look, you blind, and see!
 Who is blind but my servant,
    and deaf like the messenger I send?
Who is blind like the one in covenant with me,
    blind like the servant of the Lord?
 You have seen many things, but you pay no attention;
    your ears are open, but you do not listen.”
I can think of several different ways in which that could be understood, but I think Isaiah was referring to the people of Israel when he wrote this.  Further, I think we should see it as directed at those of us who say we follow Christ.  God is calling us out, is calling me out.  We look at what has gone wrong in our society and turn to the government to fix it.  We claim to seek to serve God, yet we do not turn to Him.  God says through the prophet,
“I am the Lord; that is my name!
    I will not yield my glory to another
    or my praise to idols.”
So, let us stop thinking that the answer to what is wrong is for the government to fix it.  The answer to what is wrong is to turn to God and call on His name, to proclaim the One who came as a Covenant for the people and a Light for the Gentiles.  Let us pray to God and ask Him to transform our hearts, and through the transformation of hearts transform our society.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.