In today’s passage, I really didn’t seen any particular verses that jumped out at me begging to be written about.
I will note, however, that there’s a pretty common theme in these prophecies that leads me to ask the following question:
I wonder if we take our sin as seriously as we should?
Here in Isaiah we see peoples and nations constantly turning from God or positioning themselves against Him from the start… sinning and suffering dire consequences. Do we see our sin in the same light, or do we take God’s grace for granted… failing to recognize the seriousness of our trespasses?
Have you heard the term “once saved always saved”. About six months ago I had such a hard time with that term. I didn’t want to hear that once I was saved I would always be saved because I thought to myself that it would be so easy to take God’s grace for granted. I’d rather live my life not knowing the answer. But of course, my husband had to ruin the suprise and prove to me that it’s true if you are in fact a child of God. What do you think?
I’m quite familiar with the term, Monica. I understand completely how one could struggle with it… at face value, license to sin does seem to be a natural outgrowth of “once saved, always saved”.
Of course, that’s obviously not the intent of the phrase nor the truth of the matter. The Bible makes crystal clear that salvation is evidenced by true repentance… a turning from old ways to follow God. Those “Christians” that choose to continually, unrepentantly sin? Well… my guess is not that they negate “once saved, always saved”, but that they probably weren’t saved to begin with.
In fact, I believe we have churches chock full of “Christians” who hang their hat on a single moment in their past where they’ve confessed faith in Christ, been baptized, came forward during the invitation, or the like… but whom have never evidenced repentance and real life-change… people who are deceived and headed straight to hell. That’s not a gospel of salvation through works, but rather, just that real salvation evidences itself in life change.
I’m not doing the topic justice, of course. It’s a far deeper subject than I can adequately communicate in just a few sentences.
My husband and I absolutely 100% agree with you.