Sunday, December 1: “Isaiah Speaks to the Nations: Day I”

Isaiah 1: 7: “Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire, your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence; it is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.”

Daily our young professionals leave the nation for better opportunities in overseas lands. Fires—many fatal—are a regular occurrence within our inner city informal settlements. And how many of our agricultural fields, north and south, are owned or leased by foreign corporations, which send the produce home to feed their own people, while our markets have little of value to offer? Was Isaiah writing of Judah and Jerusalem seven centuries before Christ, or many nations today? The answer seems to be both.