Our God is an Awesome God...The Mighty God..
I had to read this in the Message translation because I think it carries the tone better.. He's basically saying, "Dude. I'm God - don't you get it?"
God has told these stubborn people what he's going to do.. then he does it. They should be like "wow" God is great! but nope.. they totally are not impressed. But, they are impressed by magicians and fortune tellers and wooden statues.. What is wrong with them?
We get previews (commercials), posters, youtube videos of things that are about to happen. People go crazy for album release dates, movie release dates.. like remember when Avatar was about to come out? Everyone was talking about it.. and when it did, everyone was talking about it even more. This is exactly what God is talking about in vv. 5-6. God gives you a preview of things to come and it happens.. great, big things-- destruction of cities, geesh God parted a huge lake.. and we're like.. bleh.
So, God is like - let's give it another try.. Something is going to happen in 200.. yes two-hundred years! This guy Cyrus (mentioned in 44:28) is going to be the instrument to release the Israelites (Look at Ezra 1). They're not even taken captive yet... and they're already hearing about their release.
What more does GOD need to do to prove His God-ness? When will we give more attention and talk about God than some movie or some ta-lent (korean star)..
when?
we arent impressed by God's powers.
ReplyDeleteinstead wer impressed by statues and daily things around us.
we are so stubborn. God gives us so many chances to get back on track but we don't take it.
I think Lent will help us all to get closer to Him and apoligize for our carelessness.
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the thing is, we, as humans, have a problem trusting things that we can't see. Even though some people have witnessed miracles and seen what God has done for them, they refuse to believe, because our minds won't comprehend. We're blind to him. Just like in The Last Battle (chronicles of Narnia), the dwarves dont see the beauty all around them, and how well they're being treated. All they see is a dirty barn and rotten food, even though what's real is right in front of them.
ReplyDeleteWe need to just believe God and accept him as he is, without insanely unbelievable miracles.