Day 15: Isaiah 2-His Holy Mountain

The Mountain of the Lord
2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,
 3 and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
 neither shall they learn war anymore.5 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk  in the light of the Lord.
 
The Day of the Lord
6 For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. 7 Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. 8 Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
9 So man is humbled, and each one is brought low— do not forgive them!
10 Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty.11 The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. 12 For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low; 13 against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan; 14 against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills; 15 against every high tower, and against every fortified wall; 16 against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft. 17 And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 19 And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. 20 In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, 21 to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. 22 Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

 
Meditation
The Lord invites you to walk in His light (6), the light of the revelation of His word coming from His holy mountain (3).  One day all nations will come to hear the word of the Lord but today God wants to speak to you, inviting you to walk in His light. Will His light lead you to worship Him?
 
Many of God’s people cling to worthless idols, walking in the way of the wealth and resources of our land  (7-9). We bow to the idols of our hearts to build ourselves up. The prideful will be brought low (11).  The temporary fun of worshipping the gods of our culture will be quickly replaced with fear of the just Judge of all the earth.
 
Peace is available through the Lord’s Word (4). We are invited to begin having a higher regard for Him, His work, His plan, and His word, than we do our own work, other men, and our own plans (22). Let us worship the Lord by walking in His ways throughout our day, turning from the gods of our culture to His Holy Mountain.
 
Richly Dwelling
-Which pictures stand out most pointedly to you from this chapter: The Sovereign Lord who will have all peoples come to His mountain to worship (2-5), the rebellion of believers who worship idols (6-11), the fear of non believers hiding from the just judgment of God (12-19), or the casting away of idols (20-21)?
 
-What idols must you cast away to return to the Lord? How do the idols of your heart teach you to fear man more than God?
 
-God’s grace invites you to walk in His light, the way of His word. Will you today?
 
Key Verse
5 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.