Monday, May 23, 2016

The Lord's Doing

Excerpt from Don Carson post:  Numbers 31; Psalms 75-76; Isaiah 23; 1 John 1 is a post from: For the Love of God

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Whatever the historical pressures that brought about Tyre’s destruction, Isaiah wants us to know that it was the Lord’s doing (Isa. 23:8-12)—and it is he who restores the city-state again, even if all she does with her new lease on life is return to her old “prostitution” (Isa. 23: 15, 17). Yet her sin, finally, is not money, but pride: “The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth” (Isa. 23:9). There is no necessary connection between wealth and pride (witness Job), but the link is frighteningly common. Great wealth often fosters a spirit of arrogant self-sufficiency. What steps should Christians in the relatively prosperous West take against this dreadful sin? [emphasis added]

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