Isaiah 59-61

(January 9, 2015)

                The language of these chapters was interesting, because it seemed to show that two things were keeping us from God – both our individual and our societal iniquities.  I can understand our individual iniquities separating us from God, but society iniquities dividing us from God was an altogether different issue.  But as I thought about it, I realized that the Lord tends to work across cultures and groups of people and not just individuals.  When a society becomes rotten, there are fewer and fewer people capable of finding the Lord in that set of circumstances.  So even if judgments are made at the individual level, a society’s iniquities can keep many people from God.