Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"His God teaches him"
Text: Isaiah 28:26
A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT
If only Judah would listen! Isaiah attempts once again to reach Judah with a word of encouragement!
“Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my speech.
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow?
Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
When he has leveled its surface,
Does he not sow the black cummin
And scatter the cummin,
Plant the wheat in rows,
The barley in the appointed place,
And the spelt in its place?
For He instructs him in right judgment,
His God teaches him.”
Isaiah 28:23-26
1. The need of the hour.
a) To give ear and to hear.
b) To hear the words of encouragement from a prophet.
2. Example of the farmer at preparing the field for sowing.
a) His work is to plow and to turn the soil.
b) He needs to work as hard as he can till the ground is well-tilled.
3. The sowing of different types of seed.
a) He sows the black cumin (“cummin”).
b) But be scatters the black cumin (“cummin”).
c) He plants the wheat in rows.
d) He plants the barley and the spelt in its respective places.
4. How does the farmer know how to do all of the above?
a) The LORD instructs him.
b) God gives him good judgment.
c) The successful farmer is the one who listens well to what the Lord
teaches him to do.
5. Judah would do well.
a) To be like the wise and skilled farmer.
b) The one who listens well and humbly would prosper!
c) Those who reject divine admonition has no one but himself to blame
for rejecting good and sound advice.