-So many good verses about the power of God and what He has done for us and still doing for us. I think we can or at least I am applying myself every time I hear Israel in these chapters.
-He has not burdened me with a lot of rituals, but I have burdened him with sin. And He will forgive me, but not because of what I did, but because He chooses to.
-In chapter 43 he talks about being a witness. A witnesses job is to support the claim. God claims all these things and we should be a witness to it. But I love the way the chapter ends, God calls us to argue with him. Sure go ahead, He says, but it won’t go well argue with Me.
-and in chapter 44 I love the whole story about making a statue and worshipping it. As if the creator of the statue can’t comprehend not worshiping it. But worshiping any other inanimate object is strange to him, ‘should I worship the log?’ I’m not sure how much of this we have going on in America, simply due to mass production and logical thinking most religious people I would say they are worshipping what the statue represents, not necessarily the statue. “Christians” do this too, with the cross or statue of Mary. And yet I refer to my statement yesterday about what we do worship (that it is an souless object with no eternal value).