In these oracles in Isaiah 46-47 God calls the attention of his people to the lesson that they should learn from the fall of Babylon. The Jewish exiles would have wondered whether their God was really as powerful as the gods of the nations who had conquered them. To the ancient mind a defeat meant that your gods had been vanquished by greater gods. It is this assumption that is being resoundingly debunked here. The gods of the nations are but inanimate idols of wood, stone and metal. The true God is not a god who can be carried by people but the God who carries people and nations. We tend to think about God in ways that diminish who God is. Instead of seeking to know God as he is we tend to seek tangible things: miracles, experiences, manifestations, etc. But these things are not God. God may cause such things, but he himself is infinitely greater than manifestations and miracles that might happen now-and-then and here-and-there. God is not now-and-then and here-and-there. He is the infinite, eternal constant presence. He is the very ground of all being. Your very awareness, your consciousness, is already a participation in something that comes from God. “For in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). He is constantly sustaining, upholding and creating. You are immersed in God’s presence. There is more divine activity going on in you and around you than you can possibly imagine. Don’t chase after things. Seek to know God as he is in all his infinite majesty.
Entrust yourself to God again today.
Read Isaiah 46 and 47
