Day 93: December 29, 2025 – Isaiah 44-47 and Matthew 12-13

The Isaiah Scripture has totally changed its tone from one of predicting the downfall of Israel because of its infidelity, to the work that God will do to tear down the other nations because of their foolish pursuit of idols and other gods made by hand. The nonsensical nature of creating an idol, or a god, out of wood, half of the tree will go to be burnt in order to cook food and other manual and house chores, while the other half goes to be made into an idol which people will worship seems very illogical. How can that which is used for worldly matters then become something ephemeral, even spiritual? That is a good lesson for us.

Matthew has a phrase that struck me in light of where we find ourselves as a people today. Look at 12:36-37 which states: “I tell you, on the day of judgement you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter; ³⁷ for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” This is a powerful reminder that our words matter, and what we call people, and how we define people, and even those silly little things that we put on social mean to demean people, well, they all matter.