As I read through Isaiah, I will be looking for evidence of God’s grace in each chapter. This is how we can keep a right view of God. We do not want to become overwhelmed by God's discipline of God’s rebellious people and the punishment of God’s enemies. Underneath the grim inventory of the sins of the people, and the sins of the nation, and the catalog of judgments that will roll down from heaven in response, is the undercurrent of God’s consistent care for God’s people, and for the whole earth.
Isaiah: The Book
How are we to read such a long and complex book? Is it really one book, written by one writer? Is it a compilation of lectures, sermons, oracles, and chronicles?
Isaiah: The Era
You and I are not responsible for the decisions of our leaders apart from whatever our civic duty requires of us (to vote, to speak up through letters and protests). But, we must live by whatever those decisions bring about. We will be swept along in the destiny of our nation, whatever that will be.
Isaiah: The Prophet
People are trying to figure out how to live in this messy world of increasing famine and water shortages, of diminishing resources, of rapidly changing political and diplomatic landscapes, and families, careers, politics, social injustice, the environment, the economy, it is all on the line.
Isaiah: Word of God
But a true prophet speaks a message of truth, truth that does not bow to the pressure of politics or what people want to hear.