This next reading is all about Isaiah's thoughts on Egypt and the devastating judgement that will rein down on them from God. When this happens he predicts that a change will happen where all will worship God once more. But he then talks about how shallow the peoples faith is. But as we see the people do not trust God alone so they continue to try to get aid from the foreign peoples of the land. They even try to get the prophets to say what they want to hear. But, as he states here one day God will deliver them from their eneies and bring rain and punish their enemies.
The one thing I really want to pick up on here is the fact of shallow worshiping. The people will come around, but it will not be with their hearts. It will be with the rituals that God asks from them. Their hearts will still be hard towards God. We have to look at ourselves too. Do we have a hard hear. Do we go to church and put on our best appearance of good little Christians or do we come broken and ready to give everything to God? He wants 00% not 90%.
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