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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Isaiah 44:14-28
In order to clear its conscience the world is willing to associate religion with the pursuit of ease and satisfaction (cf. Exodus 32:6), just like this man who, with the same wood lights a fire, bakes his bread, warms himself . . . and carves an idol. This description is sufficient to prove the folly of such a form of worship. Instead of worshipping the One who created him, the fool falls down before a lifeless object produced by his own hands! Vv. 9-20 are full of the activity of man. He does this, he does that. He spends himself unceasingly and all for a tragic illusion, for "he feedeth on ashes . . . he cannot deliver his soul" (v. 20). But from v. 21 we find what God does . . . "I have blotted out as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins . . . I have redeemed thee". Just as the wind clears in a moment the cloudiest sky, so God with His powerful breath dispels all that has piled up between Himself – who is light – and our souls which need that light as the earth needs the light of the sun. He who "stretcheth forth the heavens . . . spreadeth abroad the earth", and who formed man, will also do what is required for the restoration of His people . . . and the salvation of whosoever believes.
