At some point between , a Jewish man named Isaiah was given quite an exhaustive message by God to deliver to His people. The brief story: The Jews, the people that God made from his own hands, had become incapable of keeping a covenant relationship with their God. Their failures had multiplied over centuries and regimes, and by the time Isaiah was a grown man, it was abundantly clear that God’s people had forgotten how to live like they belonged to God.

If you ask me, Isaiah must have been a very sad man.  From what I’ve read so far, he has nothing but bad news to give to his people from God, and from what I can see, he saw it all coming.  It must be tremendously unnerving to see your people plunge into the depths of exactly who they were never meant to be, to know what God would do about it, and to have to be the one to tell them so.

But Isaiah had to also be extremely compassionate.  It oozes from his words.  It flows from his clever Hebrew rhymes.  It springs from his explosive imagery and careful word choice.  I know that he was God’s mouthpiece and all, but I think that God uses people because, among other reasons, of what is in them and what will come out of them when they obey Him and act in His power and inspiration.

I started writing my way through Isaiah message to his people in September 2011. This is a pending project, as I’ve decided to give my attention to other things. But when I get back to Isaiah, you can expect to see things get added to this collection.

Isaiah 1 – Once My People

Isaiah 2 –