Saturday, July 28, 2018

Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you

Isaiah 47:1-15
The fall of Babylon.
You said, I am forever - the eternal queen! But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen. Now then, listen, you love of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am , and there is none beside me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children'. Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood.
You have trusted in your wickedness and have said,'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself,'I am, there is none besides me.'
That is all they are to you - these you have dealt with and labored with since childhood. All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.
This chapter is a taunt-song to the metre of a funeral procession. Babylon will be shown as little mercy as the Babylonians have show others.
Why?
Babylon were shown no mercy to other country people, so all of the terror and calamity come upon them in a moment without mercy. What they trusted is gone.
Wisdom and knowledge mislead Babylon, for the arrogance,. It is same to us today. We need wisdom and knowledge but it should be from the Lord and use it in the right way to benefit men.
Be humble, do not trust in what I have done or what I have, but trust in the Lord, his word and his faithfulness.
Many mind and consideration is built with since childhood, but careful to check it, it may be wrong or mislead us.
How?
Trust in the Lord and walk with Him with faith and love and hope.

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