ISAIAH 2:6–8
6For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. 7Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. 8Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
Through Isaiah, God declared He would radically expose where His people were and their blatant abandonment of Him. He did not do this because of a selfish or possessive jealousy; on the contrary, He is jealous for His people because He wants the best for them. He desired the Israelites to understand that the things they prioritized and valued were empty. Instead of experiencing the life that they could have in God, they trusted in foreign idols, imported military support, magicians, and charms—things that were substitutes for God in their lives, that took their trust, time, energy, and resources. In response to this, God declared that He would take away the
things His people trusted in to save them, to reveal that He was the only one they needed to look to. He would expose the idols they trusted in to highlight who He was. Today, in contrast to other things we may put our trust in, we will look at who God is and who we can be in Him.