Isaiah 2:22
22 Cease [chadal] ye from man, ['adam] whose breath [nashamah] is
in his nostrils: ['aph] for wherein is he to be
accounted of [chashab]? KJV-Interlinear
22 Stop
regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; For why should he be
esteemed? NASB
The word for man is ‘adam,’
which means flush or rosy, dyed, made, red ruddy, to show blood, common, low,
and comes to mean he who is made from the ruddy red low or worthless dust.
And here man has power
only so long as he has breath in his nostrils.
For today he lives and tomorrow he dies. And once dead, mans power and
his thoughts, cease along with him.
Ps 146:4
4 His spirit departs, he
returns to the earth; In that very day his thoughts perish. NASB
In short, humanity is
frail, humanity has severe limitations, regardless of how man looks at himself
or thinks about himself.
Man lives for just a few
decades, and yet within the first two decades of life, he comes to the belief
that he knows all there is to know about life, history, how the world works,
how society functions and so forth.
For someone who possesses
so little, humanity overstates his own wisdom and importance by lightyears.
How then does one who
knows so much, run and hide in the rocks from God who is indeed omniscient and
omnipotent and omnipresent, and presume that he can fool God. Just who is the fool?
And just who is man held
accountable to, if not to himself, then to God?
And so this chapter
closes with mans phenomenal inability to do anything wise in this life. And therefore one should not place ones trust
in man, but in God.
There is but one God, one
Savior, one plan, one truth, one spiritual life, one destiny of worth, one
faith and to disregard them all, is nothing short of stupidity.
And yet people disregard
God everyday. They disregard their
spiritual life everyday. People invent
their own values and their own spirituality, and their own path to heaven, and
then when they finally get that knock on the door of the end of their life,
they find out too late, that they had made the biggest mistake of their entire
life and it will be too late to do it over.
We all have the
opportunity to advance to spiritual maturity and to end life a winner, which is
accompanied with infinitely greater rewards than anything possible from this
world.
And yet people disregard
God and His plan. Didn’t I say that
somewhere before?
Life is filled with far
too many ‘more’ important things, and so people do not take any of this Bible stuff
seriously.
Unfortunately that is a
huge mistake. Are you making that same
mistake?
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