# 26 2025 Dev. Isa.20:6. “Trusting” Read all of chapter twenty first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Isa.20: God said to Isaiah, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.”
Isaiah 20 continues the prophecy against Egypt and Cush. Here God directs Isaiah to model what will happen to Egypt and Cush. This is an example to Judah, Hezekiah and the people were depending on Egypt to protect them from the Assyrians, not the Lord their God. But we take this prophecy from ch.19 as God’s final plan; “In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth.”
Vs.1-6 God tells Isaiah to exemplify what will happen to the Egyptians and the Cushites. “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.’ And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.” Walking around in his underwear, such as it was in those days. Why was he wearing sackcloth? Was it because the ten tribes, Samaria, was conquered and many of the Israelites were taken to Assyria? Or was sackcloth his attire as a prophet? Whatever the reason, apparently, it was not humble enough. Imagine it, living in your underwear for three years, Isaiah was to be humbled, rejected, made fun of and completely lose his reputation. But it was to shame his people, and I assume that was made clear, a reminder of their folly of thinking that the Egyptians would save them. Verse 6 tells all, “In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”
That is the question, we, who are true Christians, must ask ourselves. What are we relying on? Doing good, loving your neighbor, church attendance, living a clean-cut life, studying the Bible, all that is good but all that does not save us. We are saved by trusting only in Jesus, what He has done for us. We do the good things we mentioned above not because we are trying to be saved, no, we do all that because we are already saved! Thanks be to God!
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