ISAIAH 8:11-22
Fear God
"Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy, do not fear what they fear... "
Huh! I guess that sums it up, He does know how to talk to me and deliver a message. I have always been easily swayed, and had followed what the thoughts of the majority is. I have always been a follower of the popular choice, and avoided the undesirables. But now God is telling me this, do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy, do not fear what they fear. For someone who has a hard time forming his own opinion these statements will be difficult to follow.
God always put us in situations outside our comfort zone(hmmm... seems like he doesn't want us to be comfortable) because He wants us to trust in Him and put all our faith in Him. If we are comfortable, we forget who He is... so I guess it's okay for Him for us to be a little "pissed"(pardon the term but just honest opinion) at Him, irritated some times as long as we remember Him, because only in remembering Him could we ask help from Him.
Hence it's true that we don't need to fear whatever comes our way in this life from this world, and only fear God, who if you really think about it is the only one who really matters.
Isaiah 8:11-22
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
12 "Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
13 But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken."
16 Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples.
17 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
19 And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
20 To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
21 They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
22 And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
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