Day 98 – January 6, 2023: Isaiah 65-66 and Psalms 141-142 and Proverbs 28-29

We need to spend some time in Isaiah again. Look at 65:17-25 where we find described a new heavens and a new earth. Something very similar is described in Revelation 21, but here we find someone who finds delight in the end of days. Imagine what it would be like if 100 was too young to die. That would be ideal. But that is image that we are given of when God comes back to deliver us. This is a promise at the end of a very long book of the Bible steeped in a reality where the people of God have suffered and have been taken in to captivity. So it is a promise that one day all will not only be made right, but be made perfect.

From there we move on to the Psalms and to Proverbs, both describe what it would be like to follow the wicked, terrible, or to follow the righteous exactly what God has intended in our life. As you can imagine the following of the wicked will lead to all sorts of undesirable things in our life. While following the righteous will lead directly to the Lord. It is a bit of a no brainer which path we are encouraged to take, but both options are still presented to us.