Isaiah 35-36; I Corinthians 5

So, I'm still missing my big hulking bible with all the look up stuff (I left it in Florida this past weekend--typical). Anyway, I was looking everywhere for my other bible, which I had yesterday. Fortunately, I had just enough discipline to go look in my car, which of course is where I left it after my failed attempt at witnessing at the mall (read all about it in the Witness blog). Anyway, I'm excited for day two of devotions blogging.

Isaiah 35: The title of the chapter is Zion's Happy Future... that's encouraging. After 34 chapters of mainly talking about God's wrath maybe were going to hear some good news. It starts off talking about how God will come to save Zion. The coolest part is that that he says that "they will see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God." That would be awesome. I would do just about anything to actually see the glory of the Lord. Sometimes I just want to write down the scripture instead of commentating. Go look it up, God's going to bless people and open the eyes of the blind etc. Basically everything is going to be really awesome... sweet.

Isaiah 36: O.K. so Judah’s going to be invaded by Assyria. The Assyrian messenger tells them that counting on Egypt is useless. Then he goes on to say some cool things. He tells them there is no use for them to rely on their God, but not because God isn’t strong enough. It’s as if they know that if God was on Jerusalem’s side (as history has shown) they can’t be concurred. Instead he lectures them on how they have forsaken the true God for other gods, so they can’t rely on God anymore. It’s funny that even Israel’s enemy did research on whether they were serving their God or not. Then Assyria makes their big mistake and Calls out God, and says that Israel’s God can’t deliver them… ouch. I bet this doesn’t turn out well.

I Corinthians 5: Paul uses this chapter to rebuke the immorality in the church. In my limited experience people either don’t take this chapter seriously, or they are too zealous about it. People should try extra hard to be friends with, and help those who have fallen through their sin… It’s only when that does not work should they put them out of the church. The point that Paul was making is that it CANNOT be ignored, and the person CANNOT be ignored.