April 20, 2010 – Isaiah 14

You read chapters like this about the mighty falling and you see the power of God.  Men do become very powerful in this world and often times do so not in the greatest of ways.  We sometimes look at those people with envy and long for their “easy” lives.  Have we learned nothing from watching the economy tumble.  These material things will fall.  If we base our life on riches, when they are taken away we will have nothing.  The prophet is telling those that had huge intentions, they said they would sit higher than God, in the stars, that it will end.  Some people say they see a change in the attitudes of people and that people are starting to move away from material things.  Maybe in small groups, but I see an overall movement towards wanting more.  Even with the economy we hear about what people aren’t getting, not what people have to be thankful.  We aren’t hearing about how blessed we were, even though many were lying and scheming and we were all benefitting from these lies, but how bad it is now.  Those that base their life on material things are building their homes on a foundation of shifting sand.  The prophet does not paint a pretty picture for those that take this route when it all comes tumbling down.