Contemplative Bible Reading

Isaiah 8:12-13 (New Living Translation)

12 “Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do,
and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.
13 Make the Lord of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life.
He is the one you should fear.
He is the one who should make you tremble.

This reads like it was written last weekend. Life is not filled with conspiracies no matter what TikBookGram or whatever tells me. Things are the way they are because people made them that way. There is more stupidity than evil intent. Perhaps.

God is of paramount importance. The rest of the stuff that fills social media? Don’t live in dread of that.

Fear God? Tremble in the presence of God? Yes. I don’t read this so much as, “you better watch out because God is gonna’ get ya’.” I read this as, “Pay attention to God.”

This does read like it was written last weekend. “This person said this. That person said that. Some group of people is doing some such thing! Let’s all panic!”

This reads like it was written every day in the history of mankind. Make Jehovah God holy in our lives. Look to God, not to InstaFaceTok or whatever is the most important place in the world this weekend. God is constant. This other stuff is just fluff that blows around this way and that. Children are frightened by the wind. Adults are not.