The driving paradigm is different in Europe. Instead of looking for specific roads
along the way, you rather need to know the villages you will be passing through
to your destination. The direction to the next village is well marked; individual streets
not so much.
It is quite easy to think you are on the right road,
headed in the right direction, only to find you have been lost for the last 45
minutes and did not know it. It is bad enough to be lost and know it. It is
even worse to be lost and not know it.
It took me a couple of trips, but I learned, with
the help of a "driver’s guide”, how to get around in an automobile in Europe.
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| A German Street Name I Understood |
Today’s reading is Isaiah 64:8-65:4. Isaiah is
reciting a tale of two monologues. The first monologue, 64:8-12, a prayer actually, is an example of faithful people calling on the Lord
during their time of trouble. Of course, their turning away from the Lord
caused their trouble. Nonetheless, they demonstrated their faith by relying on God to get them out of
their predicament.
Isaiah was articulating a story of people who are
lost, but fortunately know it.
The second monologue is God’s Judgment and is
included in 65:1-4. God is angry at the Israelites. He revealed himself to them
as an act of grace, yet they persisted in doing things God forbid,
like eating the flesh of pigs and worshipping false gods. God is about to
unleash his judgment on them.
The Israelites are lost, and they do not know it!
Sadly for them, they will not know it until God’s judgment comes.
So how do we keep from straying from God and, more
importantly, know we have strayed when we do? Our Bible is better than a “driver’s
guide”. It tells us what not to do, but just as important, what we are to do.
The Bible. The best guide we have!
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