Isaiah 29:15-24

Isaiah now delivers a third woe to God's people. Judah, filled with pride, hypocrisy and disobedience, is now convinced that they could hide their thoughts and actions from God. They declare, "who sees us?" "Who knows us?" How ridiculous. Everything is known to God. Their thinking is completely twisted and turned around. These are God's people who have descended to this low level of thinking. All of us are capable of this level of thinking when we allow pride to thrive within our lives. We must stay true always to Jesus Christ and His word regardless of cost or consequence.Isaiah then takes time to remind us that there is indeed blessing after the discipline of God. He takes us ahead to the millennial reign of Christ. A time when all of creation will be restored. Every square inch of this planet will be paradise. There will be complete physical and spiritual healing. Pride will never exist again for all of eternity. The truth of Jesus Christ and His word will be known and embraced everywhere by everyone.What a glorious future we have in Christ. His return at times seems so far away and yet it is upon us. In order for us to live for Jesus every day and endure the brutal evil circumstances by which we are all surrounded, we must keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus and the wonderful future that He is now preparing for us.Keep your hand to the plough and don't look back, the kingdom of God is at hand.

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15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

22 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.