There were many quotes from the reading in Isaiah that I liked. From the very beginning of Assyria Shall Fall by a Sword Not of Man, I liked the lines that said, “Assyria with all her might and triumph was but a tool in the hands of God for carrying out His work against sinful nations.” Assyria thought that all of their winning over the lands around them was of their own doing and of their own swords, but it was really God who was involved. It is also said later that it is not a sword of man that will devour Assyria. The Lord will cause Assyria to have to pay attention to Him by devouring Assyria Himself, and not by the sword. I also like the quote that “Assyria’s power was a phantom, ‘but the Lord of hosts, Him you shall regard as holy; let Him be your fear, let him be your dread!”’ It shows God’s power over anything that the Assyrians might have seen as the greatest. God can overcome the phantom power of Assyria because He is holy and He is who needs to be feared. Sennacherib mocked God to try to get Judah to submit to defeat. However, God showed His might by sending a disastrous pestilence throughout the Assyrian camp. The Assyrians highly doubted the might of God. Today we I feel we just see God as the merciful God. We sometimes fail to realize or to mention the might and power that God has.
I also like the verse on page 99.
“You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay;
That the thing made should say of its maker:
“He did not make me”;
Or that the thing formed say of him who formed it:
“He has no understanding”?
This verse from Isaiah 29:16 reminds us that God is the Creator. We cannot mold Him to be what we want Him to be. We cannot say that I don’t like this certain part about God, so I will just not believe it. We cannot mold God to fit us.
We also see from this reading that God’s anger does not last forever. He IS a merciful God. Isaiah 30:18 says, “For the Lord is a God of justice, Blessed are all those who wait for Him.” It also says in the reading that “God is more than Lord and Owner; He is Father.” God loves us even when we do wrong and His anger will not last forever.