Today, I am reading and commenting on  Isaiah 26-28.

Isaiah calls on us to trust in the Lord forever, because He is the Rock and He is eternal.  His judgements, as severe as they may be, teach people about righteousness.  Peace comes when God establishes it and He does so when people, when we, turn to Him.  He is the one who accomplishes the things for which we strive.  Those who die serving the Lord will live again, not just in a spiritual sense, but they will be raised in physical bodies.  They will wake up with joy.  The day will come when the enemies of God, and the enemies of Israel, will turn to God and worship Him together with God’s people.  Towards the end of today’s passage, Isaiah warns us against those who see God’s commands as “do this, do that, a rule for this, and a rule for that.”  That is not what God intends.  His commands are designed to give us rest.  Yet, all too many people think that they can make a deal with death, that they can use lies to keep themselves from facing death.  They think that the lies they tell themselves will prevent God from holding them accountable.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.