Passage Read: Isaiah 7-10
Meditation Verses: 9:14-17
Thought
The elders and prominent men, the prophets who speak lies, they will all be cut off in a day. God hates them! They have led the people so far astray, that He will have pity on no one, not young man nor widow nor orphan. Everyone is wicked and ungodly. All their mouths speak vileness. There is no reason to show pity. Yet, even this punishment is not enough to satisfy the Lord's anger. He will bring even more disaster on them! Though the people were led astray by their civic and spiritual leaders, the Lord will have no mercy on them. They have become utterly corrupt, so as to become an object of wrath and nothing more.
Application
I cannot blindly follow whatever my rulers and church leaders say. I cannot blindly follow and believe whatever prophet or spiritual guide who sets himself up as an expert in God's ways. I need to seek to know the Lord myself. God will not accept as an excuse from judgment that I trusted in the leaders who rose to prominence. I will be condemned along with them. What the Bible says is authoritative. When men speak and it disagrees with the Bible, they are wrong and the Bible is right. The Bible is God's testimony about Himself that He has guarded down through the ages. If He were not what it claims Him to be, then He could could not protect it. But if He is what it claims He is, then I should have no doubt about it.