Today, I am reading and commenting on  Isaiah 43-47.

This passage begins with Isaiah telling us not to fear because God has redeemed us, He has called for everyone called by His name to be brought into His kingdom.  The prophet goes on to remind us that there is no other god, that no god preceded God, and no god has arisen since Him.  Everything else which people worship has no power.  Isaiah calls on us to return to God, because He has redeemed us from slavery to sin.  Let us act so that people all over the world may know that there is no god besides God.

Then the prophet writes that we should not quarrel with our Maker.  God has made us as we are for a reason.  He did not make a mistake.  I may not like what God has made me, but He has His reasons and nothing I can do will change what He has made.  No one can change what God has made you, nor can you.  He has formed your body, and my body, as He intends them to be.  Let us care for the vessel He has made for us and neither let it become useless through neglect, not mutilate it to look like something else.  We were born to be what we are.  The prophet warns us against thinking that we are God and can change the world contrary to His plans because God’s purpose will stand and He will do all that He pleases.  Those who believe that mankind can now make men into women and women into men are allowing their wisdom and knowledge to mislead them.  Instead of following such foolishness, and the tragedy which follows from it, let us turn to God and rejoice in being what He intended us to be.

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