His Beautiful Mess

"Therefore the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing...And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem." Isaiah 27:9, 13 Isaiah is writing to a people who's nation is divided. People are burning their children in sacrifice to their god believing they will find security and hope that way. They are giving their lives to pieces of wood believing they are holy. The nation is a mess. But in the midst of that, God promises to restore what is broken, what is hopeless, what seems lost. Doesn't sound too different from today, right? No, were not bowing down to pieces of wood or burning our children in search of security but divisi...