Read. Listen. Pay attention. For the Lord God, the Creator of all things, the One who was and is and is to come, the great I AM is speaking:
"As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called out against him he is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it... And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor. His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic"(Isaiah 31:4-5, 8-9; ESV).
How encouraging are these words to me. I challenge you to spend some time thinking and meditating on those words. Then consider the advice from Isaiah, inspired by the LORD, "whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem"(Isaiah 31:9, ESV):
"Turn to him.... " (Isaiah 31:6a, ESV).
