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Shelby
Hey, you're listening to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. This is Shelby and Paul, and today we're in Isaiah 28:30. Paul, what's happening in these chapters today?
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Paul
Today we get God pronouncing woe, which is essentially a word of judgment to Samaria and to Judah both. Yet, as we might expect, as we've seen, there's also a little bit of redemption mentioned in these chapters as well. But I think the thing I want to focus on today, this mention of a cornerstone or stone being set up in Jerusalem. So way back in 8:14, God is described as a stone that causes the people of Israel and Judah to stumble. And now in 2816, God describes a cornerstone that's a sure foundation and that causes the people that have faith in it never to stumble. And this idea of a cornerstone is something that comes up a lot in the Bible. In Psalm 118:22, we read the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. And so the cornerstone of a building is basically like the first, most important thing that's laid of the foundation. And Jesus actually identifies himself as this cornerstone that God spoke about in the New Testament. And so he's the cornerstone of the faith. And the builders are kind of conceived of as the Jews that they rejected their own Messiah, Jesus, in the Gospels. But then first Peter 2, and I'd highly encourage our readers to maybe go read that today. Kind of draws all of these themes together, describing us as living stones that are built on the house that has Jesus as its cornerstone. And so, you know, that's just kind of a brief, I guess, biblical theology of that idea of a cornerstone that we see here, that it has some connections throughout Scripture.
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Shelby
Yeah, that's one of my favorite parts of reading the Bible in a year that we get to see all of those themes as they come up time and time again throughout Scripture. So I really appreciate you drawing out the interconnectedness of Scripture there. Okay, what about applications from today's chapters? What are you applying from what you read today? Paul?
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Paul
The passage that really resonated with me, I think, was 2913, and it says, these people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship. And this is a pretty convicting word. I think for me, there's probably plenty of times that I've gone to church or read my Bible or prayed just as simple lip service. It honestly makes me think about Jesus's teaching on prayer in the Sermon in the Mount where he says, whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. And then later he says, when you pray, don't babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they'll be heard for their many words. I think the thing to take away from that is not to be anxious about how we pray or to worry if God's approve of. God approves of the way we pray. It's instead just to remind us that God wants us to be genuine with Him. There's lots of times where you kind of talk to someone and you say one thing, but you really mean another. I think corporate speak, as some people call it, is kind of this way where you're speaking sort of in code with each other in a way. God doesn't want us to be like that with Him. We want us. He wants us to be genuine. And so if we come to him in prayer and we don't know what to say, he'd rather us come to him and say, hey, God, I don't really know what to pray for today. And then ask, would you, you know, give me some things to pray for? Help me think of things, people that need prayer. What in my life needs prayer? And I have to check myself on this constantly because growing up in the church, there's lots of boxes that I sort of give myself to check as, like, oh, I'm doing a good job as a Christian. But God doesn't want lip service. He doesn't just want us to do it rotely, he wants us to do it genuinely because we love him and we want to be in relationship with Him.
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Shelby
Yeah, I think that's such a great reminder. And I certainly need that reminder on many days. My takeaway from these chapters was tucked in the end of chapter 28. And there was just a little bit in there about how a farmer uses wisdom to plant and then reap his crops. But then it attributed that wisdom that the farmer has to the Lord, saying that ultimately all wisdom comes from him. And, you know, we're big readers, we like to read, we like to learn. And I know many people probably feel like, well, in my life I've learned a thing or two. Like, I have some wisdom. This was a reminder to me that anything that I know, I only know because the Lord allowed me to know it. And I only know a tiny, tiny fraction of the wisdom that he knows in his infiniteness. And so I don't know it was just it was perspective that I gained through those few verses that was really helpful for me. Okay, thank you so much for walking us through this. Hey, let us know what you're learning. You can swipe up to leave a comment and we'll be back tomorrow with
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