Isaiah is told that his preaching will not make it easier for Israel to believe and repent. On the contrary, it will make it harder. This is so because humans are independent beings at their core. Preaching about the rule of God often challenges people and hardens them, thus confirming them in their independence and in their fate.
If people are independent at heart and preaching makes them more so, how can anyone turn back to God?
- Two Cities: Isaiah - Andrew Reid and Karen Morris
Makes you think, huh?
I take being rebuked, challenged, encouraged, taught by God's Word as a given (sometimes, a very uncomfortable given with hard truths), but as Reid and Morris point out, it's clear from Isaiah 6 that this isn't the natural, default reaction.
How gracious God is in causing us to react to His Word in ways other than becoming more hardened.
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