Others Will Fail You

Isaiah 47

Inspired thots

How terrifying to depend on self and others but not God! Dire consequences come with God's judgment in due time. Even if one is very wise and capable, one can stand against God; hence, it is better to be on HIS side than depend on others who will surely fail.

Our efforts would be wasted on others whom we think can benefit us in troubled times; selfish man benefits only himself. All will flee when trouble comes but only our God is beside us to deliver and safe. Hallelujah!

NW's input today after devotion ~ MPPtoday When God shakes...start making your choice

God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks onto the stage the play is over.

God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else - something it never entered your head to conceive - comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left?

For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. 

Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it. C. S. Lewis