Fear, trust and wait for the Lord

As I read Isaiah this morning I saw a picture of the United States. I felt God speaking directly to me to solidify my opinion of the current state of the Union. It is not for me to worry about, don't get me wrong I like my country, but I love my God.

"For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: "Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." (Is 8:11-14)

At this time Jerusalem was a house divided much like today's United States. And God came to Isaiah and said do not take sides do not fall for the political traps that they have set for you. Don't seek wisdom and guidance from those who did not create the world, do not resort to getting knowledge from the dead , seek him who created knowledge, seek Life, seek Truth and wait for Him who is hiding his face from a country who has abandoned their faith and relationship with the one true God.

Don't be like the "many [who] shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken." (Is 8:15)

Instead "bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob." (Is 8:16-17a)

As for me "I will hope in him. Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion." (Is 8:17b-18)

And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers [and expert political advisers] who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?" (Is 8:19)

Does this sound like anything you have heard lately? "To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness." (Isaiah 8:20-22 ESV)

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