Quiet Time : "the whole earth is full of his glory"

Tuesday

Isaiah 3:12 (KJV)

12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Me: this made me think of the fall (Gen. 3), and how God's natural order regarding gender was disrupted. This warns of the danger of twisting God's will.

Isaiah 3:16-26 (KJV)

16Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21The rings, and nose jewels,
22The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

Ryrie: The fashionable women, seeking to lure other women's husbands with their imported luxurious dress, would soon be destitute (cf. 1 Peter 3:3-4)

Me: Even if a man is single, he is PROBABLY going to marry, and that means that he is someone else's husband - he will be at some point - and that should be honored. I know I read that somewhere - to treat all men as someone else's husband (if they are single, and obviously if they are married)... Also, these verses really stood out to me a few days ago, and TODAY I read the following post from Girls Gone Wise blog: Too Sexy For My Love (hint, she talks about these verses).

Isaiah 4:1 (KJV)

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Ryrie: Wars will slaughter so many men that in that day (ultimately the tribulation days), women will be willing to be self-supporting if only they can be married and escape the reproach of being childless.

Me: nowadays there is no "reproach of being childless." Today's society has gone so far to the other extreme that it condones the murder of innocent, unborn children and labels it as "equal right," or "leveling the playing field" with men. The result - murder for the sake of "equality." Ugh. I don't want to be equal to a man. I don't have to be to have a sense of self-worth.

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Wednesday

Isaiah 5:6 (KJV)

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Me: this is what happens with rebellion (read the prior verses!).

Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:30 (KJV)

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Me: verses 20 and 30 show the difference between light and dark (good and evil), and the danger of mistaking one for another.

Isaiah 6:3 (KJV)

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

Ryrie: Holy means separate from all that is sinful and immoral. The threefold repetition means tha God is uniquely holy.

Me: first of all, this made me think of Revelation 4:8! Also, THREEFOLD REPETITION - look back at the Song of Solomon posts... ;)