Isaiah

Isaiah must have had a crazy hard life.  From reading Heschel, you can just tell that this guy is so passionate about both God and the people on Earth that he is torn between the two.  I'm still trying to understand the fact that Heschel believes that these profits were acquantinces of God.  I mean, where do people go now a days if they start saying they've had conversations with God? to the insane asylum.  I bet you if I was there when Isaiah was preaching I probably would have thought he was crazy.  Just like we talked about in class, I think that the Bible is so intriguing because the people in it make the same mistakes that we make all the time.  In this case, it was not trusting solely in God.  There were a few lines that I did like a lot that were in Isaiah and I thought helped me understand why this God of the old testament seems so much meaner than the God of the new testament.  My favorite is "He is both smiting and healing", or as Heschel puts it "There is no redemption with affliction."  It kind of started to make sense to me that living for God isn't the easiest thing to do, but although it seems like he's doing something very wrong at some points, that it's all for good in the end.  This is quite a way to go about things, but it's definitely a way to find out who truly is faithful and believes that God is almighty.  As can be seen in Isaiah, both kings were not faithful enough in the Lord to not rely on other nations.  This brings us once again to the fact that the people in the Bible are so similar to us today, cause we really do the same thing now.