Isaiah 44-55

Today's chapters give us one of the most vivid depictions of the stupidity of idolatry.  It is comical thinking about people bowing down to blocks of wood in hopes of salvation when the Creator of the universe is watching them. Unlike the lifeless, powerless idols, God shows his power by his ability to control history and predict the future.  In today's reading he tells the name of the king (Cyrus) who will defeat the Babylonians and send the Israelites home to rebuild the temple decades before any of those things will happen.  How humbling it is that a God of such power has such care for his own people.  Read it here.