What Makes Sense – The Presidential Prayer Team

“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin.” – Isaiah 30:1

How many times have you wondered why someone did not use common sense? It seems to be lacking in a lot of places. But, this is not a new thing. Envision the prophet Isaiah shaking his head in unbelief at the actions of the people of Israel. They had escaped the slavery of Egypt by God’s hand. Now, threatened by the Assyrians, Israel’s leaders met privately to determine that they should make an alliance with Egypt instead of aligning with the God who had brought them through all their difficulties in the past (Isaiah 29:13-16). Would God not see? Would He not understand?! Their decision made no sense.

Have there been times in your life when things were topsy-turvy? Did you make a decision to move forward instead of waiting? Maybe your desires gained the upper hand instead of your will to obey the direction God gave you. Professor John N. Oswalt wrote that “the whole basis of the life of faith is summed up in Jesus’ words in the garden of Gethsemane, ‘Not what I will, but what you will’” (Mark 14:36).

Believer, be assured that God has only good intentions toward you. Trust that His will is better than yours. It makes good sense to follow the Holy Spirit’s leading in ALL things. Pray for His guidance in your life, as well as in the lives of those who make decisions for this nation.

Today’s Verse: Isaiah 30:1

“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit,
    that they may add sin to sin;

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Recommended for further reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-12

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. ²For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. ³And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, ⁴and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

⁶Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. ⁷But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. ⁸None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹But, as it is written,

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
    nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—

¹⁰these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. ¹¹For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹²Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.