Isaiah #10 - "This is the way, walk in it."

Isaiah 30:15-26 (NIV)

Read by: Adriana Abuchar

As we go along in the book of Isaiah, we’re exploring a lot of context together, but there’s so much more that we can’t fit into this podcast. So before we begin today, we just wanted to remind you to check out the show notes for videos and blogs from the Bible Project and books about Isaiah from InterVarsity Press that will help to expand your understanding of this prophetic book and of Scripture itself.

So, let’s get started. We’ve been moving through themes of judgment and hope for Israel, for Israel’s oppressors, and for Israel’s neighbors. We’ve seen the vision of what’s coming, of what will be in the distant future… the New Jerusalem, the mountain where all the peoples of the earth will be at peace and at home with nature, with God, and with one another. Today’s passage brings us into a section that turns around and zooms in on the rise and fall of Jerusalem itself. The city’s leaders have allied themselves politically with Egypt, with Pharaoh, with the nation that had enslaved them and killed their infants. Against the continuous warning and pleading of Yahweh’s prophets, they’ve chosen a path that seemed wise in their own eyes, but God knows it’s going to lead them astray.

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1. What word or phrase stood out to you as you listened?

2. The choice between defining good and bad for ourselves and trusting God to teach us has been the issue from the beginning. In what ways do you need to go deeper in learning to live according to God’s wisdom, instead of your own?

3. The LORD longs to give them rest, longs to have their trust, longs for them to let Him lead them. As we’ve said so many times in this series, the circumstances were different, but the temptations are the same. Are there areas of your life that you feel the LORD asking you to trust him, to let him lead, but it’s hard to let go of control? Bring those to Him now.

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Bible Project: Isaiah 1-39 >>

Bible Project Blog: Isaiah and the Messianic King >>

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