Do You Turn Things Upside Down? (Isaiah 29)

Isaiah 29 shows us how much the people of Judah had turned things upside down.  When they tell their maker, “You did not make me,” it would be like us telling our mother, “You did not give birth to me, but I gave birth to you.”  Isaiah mentions a number of ways that they turned things upside down or got them backwards.  Perhaps the best-known is language that Jesus would use about them drawing near with their mouth and honoring God with their lips while their hearts are far from Him and their fear of God is a commandment taught by men.  They were the very definition of hypocrisy as defined by Jesus — they pretended to have faith, to believe, they said the right things but their hearts had already gone into exile from God.  The seers could not even see the vision Isaiah saw but might as well have had covered heads.  All of these things are turning things upside down.  This is what unbelief does, we try to take the potter God and act like He is the clay that we can mold to our liking.  But He is the one who knit us together in our mother’s womb.  And He is the one who can mold us to be a vessel fit for honorable use.

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