Monday, March 18, 2019


A Devotional Thought From Isaiah

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Isaiah 24:12
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.   Isaiah 33:3

In his sermons, the prophet Isaiah gives us the clear understanding that God is in control of the future of the nations. They do not determine their futures except in the sense that their wicked and sinful societies can bring forth the judgment of God.

Isaiah tells us that Moab, Damascus, Tyre, Judah, Israel, Assyria, Egypt, and even Babylon, the great, lost their power and faced destruction under His hand. They could not stop it.

The news hounds and political junkies, politicians and military leaders, of that day, viewing many of these nations from the earthly perspective, would never have expected them to be flattened and desolated as they were. They were, so to speak, too big to fail. They were too great to fall. They were too powerful to be overpowered. So it seemed, so they just went on their merry, sinful way. They did not expect that their behavior could bring down their country, but it did.

If God still rules in the affairs of the nations, and He does, the modern countries have obligations to govern themselves and be righteous according to God’s biblical directives. Present day nations could fall just as remarkably as those of Babylon’s time.

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