"If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all."
Poor Ahaz- all he has to help him is human wisdom. I don’t know how people without faith deal with the terrible situations we as humans find ourselves in. Ahaz is in a terrible situation, he is facing ruin, he is terrified, he has lost heart and he is considering asking a wolf to help him with a dog. God sends His prophet to challenge him to courage, reminds him that his enemies are mere mortals subject to time, and that God calls us to a life of faith, to stand in faith. Now faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God. We read God’s Words in the Bible and we believe that those Words apply to us, and that God has the power to make those Words become our future reality. Friend – will you have more faith than Ahaz today? Will you set your mind on the sign God gave Ahaz and us- the sign of Immanuel God with us. Will I seek God’s face, God’s Presence, God’s wisdom today? Or will I like poor Ahaz only seek human wisdom in all of its frailty- and follow him to destruction?
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