ISAIAH 8:1-10
Assyria, the Lord's instrument
Good morning Lord, I don't think I'll be making any sense today. I just really want to release what's in my mind. I have planned to write my thoughts yesterday but somehow I am not able to compose it, so today even though my thinking is a bit scattered I'll try. I was to write about how miserable I'm feeling, how difficult life is right now, that even how much I try to better my state It just feel like its getting worse, like I'm in quicksand the more I struggle to get free the deeper I get in.
I've always been careful with my words, chosen them carefully so not to offend those around me. Now I'm having problems because I feel that I am not being true to myself, and not know how to properly express my feelings. Often times it is more out of fear on how people will perceive me, I created this image of myself that I'm having a hard time to escape out.
Just this time I want to be honest with how I feel, I don't think there is really someone out there who keep tabs of what I right, so I guess this will be fine. What I'm going to write is true for this moment, but like everything else it could be swayed another time. Again this is to air out what I feel, hmmm... on second thought I rather not... I'm feeling better right now... it doesn't really matter anymore. That feeling is slowly diminishing... =)... it has been swayed.
About the reflection I had on the passage, mmm... I think you just have to have your own I'll post the verses below. [I wrote something funny here but it was deleted... isipin mo na lang na nakakatawa]. I just ended it with Immanuel - God with us. So whatever problems we face God is with us.
Isaiah 8:1-10
1 Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.'
2 And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me."
3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
4 for before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."
5 The LORD spoke to me again:
6 "Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks,
8 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel."
9 Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
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