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Isaiah 34-44

Sometimes getting through this plan twice in 2020 is going to feel like drinking from a fire-hose. BUt where better to drink? What better to be overwhelmed by? How do we sum up these 11 chapters in a lifetime, never mind a paragraph?! 

Hezekiah is not the son of David we're looking for. He fails God's people, despite God's goodness to him in the siege of Sennacherib. It's so interesting tht Sennacherib offers the people of Jerusalm what only the LORD can give them. Sin will always offer us what only the Lord can give us. The devil is a rip-off artist, an impersonater. He has no joy in his sotre for us. Only the Lord Jesus can give us that. How often we forget.

But the Lord will stop at nothing to show His people His love for them. I love the Old Testament because i love to see God's grace poured out on undeserving rebels, like me. What does it mean that God loves you? It means that He will remove every barrier and every wall that stops you seeing Him as the source of all security and satisfaction and help you to enjoy and glorify Him accordingly. God loves His glory, and this is good news. This is why He makes it rain in the wilderness, this is why He brings His people home, crowned with joy.