April 21, 2025

When pride becomes the centerpiece of our lives, we can almost count on God to take us down a notch. He warned Ephraim and Jerusalem through Isaiah because they let their pride turn into drunkenness, which overcame them. They must have thought they were safe under God's covering, but they ran amok, not believing He would hold them accountable. They hadn't learned their lessons through God's word and were stumbling with drunkenness. We need to understand the scriptures little by little to take them into our memory; in this chapter, God calls it precept upon precept. Judah and Israel had forgotten what they had learned. They had made a covenant with death rather than continuing under God's covering. They must have thought they would be protected from judgment, but God made it known that He was laying a cornerstone, a firm foundation, which we know is Jesus, and he will be the plumb line that we measure ourselves by and their covenant with hell would be revoked and they will be trodden down. The lesson is that we must take Jesus' covering seriously. If you are not learning, changing, and measuring yourselves against the plumb line of Jesus, you are at risk of rebuke. So we don't make grievous mistakes, we might need to ask ourselves, "What would Jesus do?"

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Isaiah 28:16