I have started to read the book of Isaiah. I don't know why I decided on this book, but either way, I'm reading it. I hope to share over the next month or so somethings that I have been taking from this book. I will try my best to accompany each of these short reflections on the book with a picture that reflects the message. Hopefully, this is a great learning experience for both of us.

I would like to add that I am in no way a scholar, and could be off in some of my statements. If you think this is so, PLEASE, let me know. What I am doing in this Blog is simply showing what I have gotten out of the passage in my devotional time.

The book starts out with sin, and lots off it. God's nation has turned away from Him, spat in His face, made Him a mockery in their rebellion. The people are injured. Their whole hearts afflicted. They are spiritually covered from head to toe in open wounds and welts, left unbandaged and uncleansed. They are, in every way, entangled in sin.

This entanglement with sin has left their worship of God unacceptable and empty. Yet, He is willing to let the sin fall into His everlasting forgiveness with the promise given in 1:18-20... What I love most about these verses is that God uses reason. He isn't saying this isn't part of the mind. It is all about the mind. Forgiveness is a way of thinking, I guess you could put it.