Why would God have us to look at the topic of idols again? It must be that God's people continue to need this topic addressed. We continue to have temptation to go off to idols of one sort or another. An idol is anything that is as important or more important to you than the living and true God as

Here in these verses, God gives further assurance and promise to His people. Is there thirst? God has provision for this. God knows your needs. Just as he knew the needs of the thirsty here, the ones who were frightened and desperate for something to drink, God knows our needs. He provides them in the best way and time. Even

In verses 11-12 we see that the nations were angry against the people of God. Why? Because they were the people of God. The wicked sinners cannot get at God, so they seek to attack the people of God. But the wicked will be ashamed and disgraced. They shall be as nothing, and they shall die. For the people to

In the time of Isaiah, there were fears, trials, and troubles. It's the same today. All kinds of things may be troubling you, perhaps keeping you awake at night. God says to His people, 'Fear not.' Why? 'Because I am with you. I have been with you, and I have delivered you. I will be with you, and I shall

In these verses God speaks to His own people. First, God names the people of God by their forefathers and starts out with him who was given a new name. He had been Jacob, but many years later, God gave him a new name, Israel -- that is, the one who wrestles with God. He was no longer looking out

This chapter is speaking to the heathen nations round about -- the nations that think they are strong and mighty, the leaders of them that think that they are perhaps gods on earth. There are certain themes that we see over and over again: how it is God alone who brings things to pass; that the idols of the nation

The people are saying: 'things have gotten so bad that God doesn't pay any attention to me anymore.' God's people have always had this temptation to be impatient: 'Does God really care about me? If God really cared, wouldn't He do this?' How foolish we are.To these words God replies in verses 28 and 29. God is great in power.

Listen and look. That's what God tells us to do here. Pay attention to what you're hearing. Don't merely pay attention. Actually take action with what you've heard. And don't just look, but actually understand what you're looking at.God directs His people to what they had heard. God's people would be tempted to distrust God's power and ability and willingness

We have this pathetic, or really, in a way, laughable picture, in these three verses, of idols. These idols cannot do what God does. They don't have control of the oceans and the storms. They have no command over the nations. As a matter of fact, not only can they not control these things, they did not make these things.

God is great in power as we see in verse 12. Because the people, were in such difficulty and such hardship, it would be difficult, perhaps, for them to really imagine that God could or would save them. But God can do so. Even though many of the problems before Israel and Judah were caused by their own sin, God