A Call to Faithfulness: Isaiah 1:1-31

As Christians we tune in to God’s word in every year, every era – to hear God’s appointed spokespersons, and more than this, to hear God’s verdicts, God’s analyses, God’s challenges to our ways of thinking and our ways of living. And as we’ll see in a moment, there are a few shocks in store. So as we pick up the Book of Isaiah the prophet, as well as reading an ancient, celebrated manuscript, remember that we’re listening to an urgent message from God himself to his people. The prophets were those who spoke up on the Lord’s behalf. The events Isaiah described came about in history – something that produces faith in us as we read his account that was written before they even happened – but perhaps more importantly, as well as accurately predicting future events, Isaiah spoke to grab the attention of God’s people and deliver God’s urgent message– in his own day and down through the ages.