Day 85: December 17, 2025 – Isaiah 11-15 and Psalm 143

Isaiah seems to move from predicting the coming of the Messiah and restoration, to a chapter on restoration, but the rest is on destruction and recompense for disobedience. It is within these types of chapters that Isaiah gets his reputation for being a prophet that describes the future destruction that is to come, and yet no one seems to listen to him. Not quite the weeping prophet like Jeremiah, but nevertheless we do see a message that is consistently delivered and consistently ignored. There is a real affinity to Isaiah’s message the nature of things in our day and age. God speaks, but we do not obey. We may listen, we may hear, but we do not follow. This has been the way of the Lord, always to give us His message of hope and restoration, but we consistently choose that which leads to destruction. The morbidity with which these words are given aren’t meant to discourage, but rather to motivate.