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September 4 - Isaiah 32 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it is Sean. Here it is Monday.
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  It is the 4th of September and welcome to a whole new week.
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  It is so good that you have joined me so that you and I can,
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  on this chapter a day Bible reading podcast, continue to
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  read through God's Word a chapter each day.
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  And for those of you who are super astute and keeping up day
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  by day, chapter by chapter, you may have noticed that I made a
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  bit of a Boo Boo that I only worked out now as I sat down to
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  read chapter 33 of Isaiah and realized that instead of reading
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  chapter 32 on Thursday last week, I read chapter 33 and
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  missed chapter 32. There you go.
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  In almost three years, it's the first time I've completely
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  missed a chapter and not even realized until the following
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  week. So bully for me, right?
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  But at least I worked it out. Now when I say I worked it out
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  now, I actually got halfway through reading 33 thinking this
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  sounds very, very similar to a recent chapter.
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  My goodness, Isaiah is getting repetitive in his old age, but
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  it turns out it's me getting forgetful in my old age.
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  Well, 44 old age. Yeah, that that's old enough.
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  I'll. I'll claim it.
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  So, no, today we will go back and read chapter 32, which is
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  actually a beautiful chapter. And it's a shame that we didn't
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  read it last week, because it's wonderful.
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  This is a chapter where Isaiah paints a picture of what society
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  will look like when Israel is ultimately delivered and
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  restored by God's goodness. And this is one day in the
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  future. This is what life will look
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  like. So continue to trust in God.
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  So there's something in that for all of us.
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  So why don't you and I enjoy this together as we get a
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  glimpse of what a restored land looks like under God's care as
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  we read together. Actually Isaiah chapter 32.
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  Look, a righteous king is coming and honest Princess will rule
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  under him. Each one will be like a shelter
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  from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water
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  in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a parched land.
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  Then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth, and
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  everyone who has ears will be able to hear it.
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  Even the hot heads will be full of sense and understanding.
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  Those who stammer will speak out plainly in that day.
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  Ungodly fools will not be heroes.
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  Scoundrels will not be respected, for fools speak
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  foolishness and make evil plans. They practice ungodliness and
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  spread false teachings about the Lord.
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  They deprive the hungry of food and give no water to the
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  thirsty. The smooth tricks of scoundrels
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  are evil. They plot crooked schemes.
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  They lie to convict the poor, even when the cause of the poor
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  is just The generous. People plan to do what is
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  generous, and they stand firm in their generosity.
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  Listen, you women who lie around in ease.
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  Listen to me, you who are so smug.
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  In a short time, just a little more than a year, you careless
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  ones will suddenly begin to care for your fruit.
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  Crops will fail and the harvest will never take place.
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  Tremble you women of ease. Throw off your complacency,
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  strip off your pretty clothes and put on burlap to show your
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  grief. Beat your breasts in sorrow for
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  your bountiful farms and your beautiful grapevines, for your
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  land will be overgrown with thorns and briars.
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  Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.
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  The palace and the city will be deserted, and busy towns will be
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  empty. Wild donkeys will frolic, and
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  flocks will graze in the empty forts and watchtowers, until at
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  last the spirit is poured out on us from heaven.
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  Then the wilderness will become a fertile field, and the fertile
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  field will yield bountiful crops.
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  Justice will rule in the wilderness and righteousness in
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  the fertile field. And this righteousness will
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  bring peace. Yes, it will bring quietness and
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  confidence forever. My people will live in safety
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  quietly at home. They will be at rest.
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  Even if the forest should be destroyed and the city torn
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  down, the Lord will greatly bless his people wherever they
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  plant seed. Bountiful crops will spring up
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  their cattle and donkeys will graze freely.
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  Lord, thank you for those times of blessing.
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  Thank you for the good gifts that you have for us, the
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  thousand things that you will bless us with today that we
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  might not even notice or see. But there you are, a God who
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  blesses. Thank you for the lives that
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  you've given us, those that we love and who love us, the things
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  that we get to do that make a difference in this world, and
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  the joy that you grow inside of us every day.
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  For the birds, for the sky, for the greenery.
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  We just thank you for so many wonderful things.
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  And we pray that the greatest gift that you've given us, the
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  love that you've given us in Jesus, that we could just
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  overflow with that love and share it with the people that we
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  spend today with. We thank you for these gifts and
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  we pray that they would shape us to be gift givers in our
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  context. And we just pray all of this in
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  the name of your greatest gift, Jesus.
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  Amen.