Contemplative Bible Reading

Isaiah 40:13-14 (New Living Translation)

13 Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord?
Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him?
14 Has the Lord ever needed anyone’s advice?
Does he need instruction about what is good?
Did someone teach him what is right
or show him the path of justice?

Take the first phrase of verse 13. Etch it in stone and put it as the cornerstone of your house Do houses have cornerstones? They should, and this should be the cornerstone.

I give the above advise to really smart people (like me). Smart? Yes. Smart enough to give God advise? No. And some day I really need to remember that.

And then we come to questions of “ethics.” God knows right from wrong. God knows justice.

Can you imagine what God thinks of our 21st-century ethics and what our society calls “right” and “wrong?” Gosh.

God, thank you for providing me a book containing wisdom and ethics.