Today’s questions come from our Scripture passage. Take a moment and read them first. They are rhetorical questions. The prophet Isaiah knew the Israelites knew, heard, been told, but may not understand. We are in the same boat today.
We have heard about God. In fact, there is a growing curiosity among the young, the very young. Children in school are asking questions. We have even seen a few cases in the news or courts in which teachers have been accused of bringing up the subject of God…falsely.
Children are curious by nature. They are sponges who soak up everything they hear. It is their parents who may not want to know about God. Why? They had a bad experience with someone in the church. You know? That can happen in Walmart, Home Depot, or Kohls. They don’t stop shopping at those stores because they had one bad experience. Yet, they will stop going to church for that reason.
Isaiah has the same situation on his hands. The Israelites had been led astray. They had worshiped idols. They had turned to evil. They also had been taken into captivity as punishment for their sins as a nation. Isaiah is reminding them of God, who had chosen them. He is seeking to turn them back to God.
Sound familiar? We live in the same situation today. Perhaps we have not been taken into captivity by another country, but we are prisoners of our culture. We need to be reminded just as the Israelites need to be reminded. God is far greater than any ruler, person, or nation on this earth. We, like children who are curious, need to seek to know God better and build a close relationship with him.
I pray we all seek to know God better. I pray we seek to build a closer relationship with him. I pray each one of us will turn our hearts back to God and join his children to worship him together. Know God better. Build your relationship with him. Give God you heart. Be curious. Worship him together.
Isaiah 40:21-23
Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to live in;
who brings princes to naught,
and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
Marty Pressey 