Introduction to Isaiah 28

This site is dedicated to my children, in hopes that they will come to know the things shown to me by our Heavenly Father.  I pray that as they make their way through life, they will turn to God for comfort and knowledge and learn to converse and seek Him in all things.  I am inspired by the words found in Isaiah 28.  I testify that the Lord does desire to teach us in all truths if we are willing to humble our hearts and commune with Him daily.  I pray that my children will be inspired to seek truth and to live more righteously than I have.

Isaiah 28: 9-10, 16-18 (KJV)

⁹ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
¹⁰ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little

The Lord requires us to be like children and eagerly grasp those things which he teaches.  He makes the workings of the universe known to us bit by bit, line upon line, precept upon precept.  We can't just take a crash course in Universe 101 and know all that he wants us to know.  It requires patience, prayer, and practice living as righteously as we can at all times, repenting when we mess up, and learning to put away pride and accept his grace and mercy.  I learned early in life that people don't value things that are freely given to them.  We have to work hard for the things we have and the blessings we obtain or we would simply never appreciate them.  That's why God allows us to go through trials in our lives.  If we press forward and rely on Him, He will enrich us and give us the understanding that we need to make it through those trials.  A friend once compared our lives to a still pond or puddle of water.  Just when everything is going great and the water is calm and still, God sticks his finger in or tosses a pebble so that ripples are created in our life.  Those ripples represent our trials.  They become the catalyst for our learning and growth and cause us to seek Him. This process enables us to build our witness and testimony of the gospel, and allows us to grow closer to our Heavenly Father.

¹⁶ So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone,  a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.

¹⁷ I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line;  hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.
¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.

Just like all other true prophets of God, Isaiah makes a prophesy about  the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  This was over 700 years before Christ's birth in Bethlehem.  Jesus Christ is the stone Isaiah speaks about which has been tested.  Jesus will be the cornerstone on which the foundation of the Gospel is formed.

The Lord speaks of making Justice the measuring line for our lives.  This means that we will be held accountable for our actions when we die.  We will be measured against the perfect life of our Savior. This should not discourage us however, because he gives us a special tool to help us become spotless again.  That tool is repentance.  I will speak more on repentance in a future blog.

Righteousness is our plum line.  A plum line is basically a weight on a string that builders use to make sure their structures are straight and upright (perfectly vertical, 90 degrees to the earth) by relying on the forces of gravity.  Without a plum line, our structures would lean one way or another.  Without righteousness in our lives, we will never be able to be upright with God and will constantly struggle because the forces of the earth (sin) will always keep us from being upright and sinless.

We will not be able to hide from God's judgement, as it suggests in latter part of verse 17.  However, if we learn to live righteously, our sins will be forgiven and as verse 18 declares, we will overcome death thanks to Jesus Christ's atonement for our sins, and we will live eternally.

As I conclude this introduction, I must point out that I have two purposes for this blog.  First, I pray that my children and others find peace and comfort in the words that I share and are able to use it as reference to help them find direction.  And second, I pray that somehow over time, with God's help, the words of this site can be archived and serve as a journal which blesses not only me, by revealing God's hand in my daily life, but also blesses my future posterity so that they too can see God's divine mission and know that no matter how much the world changes over time, He is still in control and will continue to have His hand in all things.