Friday, April 11, 2014

Derived and Depending

Reading:   Isaiah 2

At the end of this chapter there is a sweet throw back to Solomon and the brooding book of Ecclesiastes.  The inevitable truth that man is but mortal and limited while God is infinite and eternal.  Only folly can be found in the temporal worship of man because all men cease breathing.  Through God we can redeem spiritual gifts and obtain glories beyond measure - even after death.

ISAIAH 2:22
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? 
The natural man is an enemy to God because men fall prey to that which is easy and known. It takes effort to have faith and believe in that which is not seen.  Let's give the last hammer smash to Matthew Henry - drive it home brother Henry!
Put not your trust in man, nor make even the greatest and mightiest of men your confidence; cease to do so. Let not your eye be to the power of man, for it is finite and limited, derived and depending; it is not from him that your judgment proceeds. Let not him be your fear, let not him be your hope; but look up to the power of God, to which all the powers of men are subject and subordinate; dread his wrath, secure his favour, take him for your help, and let your hope be in the Lord your God.
Man is "derived and depending" - got to love Brother Henry!

~Kipling




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