Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"Now I have brought it to pass"
Text: Isaiah 37:26
GOD AS THE CREATOR
Assyria had allowed pride to fill its heart and mind. It posed itself as greater than the gods of the nations it conquered. Assyria went too far when the Rabshakeh blasphemed, boasting that the LORD was powerless to protect Jerusalem, Judah!
“Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.”
Isaiah 37:26-27
1. Mocking the ignorance of Assyria.
a) Assyria began as a small inconspicuous country.
b) All nations are formed by the LORD.
c) It was God who had destined Assyria to become a mighty nation.
d) That Assyria should be a nation that crushed fortified cities
and to make them into heaps of ruins was all within the Will and Power of God.
2. The nations that were conquered by the Assyrians.
a) The inhabitants conquered:
i) They had little power.
ii) They were easily dismayed.
iii) They were confounded.
b) They were compared to:
i) The grass of the field.
ii) The green herbs.
iii) The grass on housetops.
iv) The blighted grain that had not fully grown.
3. Assyria’s boast of conquering nations.
a) These were not mighty nations at all.
b) These were weak nations.
c) The idols of these nations were not “gods” in any sense of the word.
d) Assyria’s boast was an empty one in God’s evaluation.