Old Testament: Isa 30.12–14

To read the Bible in a year, read Isaiah 29–30 on October 4, In the year of our Lord Christ 2024

By Don Ruhl 

Many people despise the word of God, and then think nothing of it, but the Scriptures show there is a serious repercussion for doing so: “Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perversity, and rely on them, therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant. And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel, which is broken in pieces; He shall not spare. So there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the cistern” (Isaiah 30.12–14). 

God instructs us in the way that we should live, because it is the only way to live. If a person does not like the word of God and chooses to despise what it says, then that person will resort to other or less than friendly ways of living. 

When a person makes that choice, he has set himself up to come crashing down, as is evidenced not only by what this passage says, but history shows this happening to every nation. 

Questions: 

• What do you think of the word of God? 
• Do you fight what it says? 

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Don preaches with the Savage Street Church of Christ in Grants Pass, Oregon. 

Listen to his sermons here: GrantsPassChurchOfChrist.com