18 min
Not Weary (David Gore • Isaiah 40:21-31) MustardSeed Talks 2019
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- Christianity
The ups and downs of life can be wearing at times. Not only the continual changes in circumstances that life often brings, but also the combined overall mood of the culture around us that can lift us or pull us down.
Isaiah spoke to the people of Israel at a time when they had been wearied by their years in exile. The people were struggling to believe life could get better again for them.
The prophet reminds the people that from where they take their bearings, radically alters one’s sense of what is going on.
Look to the powerful people (and their regimes) and you will get a particular impression. Look past those people, to One who can extinguish their temporal power in the blink of an eye, and you will get a very different, and invigorating, impression.
Isaiah recommends the latter!
The ups and downs of life can be wearing at times. Not only the continual changes in circumstances that life often brings, but also the combined overall mood of the culture around us that can lift us or pull us down.
Isaiah spoke to the people of Israel at a time when they had been wearied by their years in exile. The people were struggling to believe life could get better again for them.
The prophet reminds the people that from where they take their bearings, radically alters one’s sense of what is going on.
Look to the powerful people (and their regimes) and you will get a particular impression. Look past those people, to One who can extinguish their temporal power in the blink of an eye, and you will get a very different, and invigorating, impression.
Isaiah recommends the latter!
18 min