Haven’t You Heard?

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? (Isaiah 40:21 KJV)

This leads into a biblical truth that bears repeating:

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. (Isaiah 40:28 KJV)

Isaiah was writing to a people who had been told of their God for generations, yet their hearing could have been as stone. So often they responded to God with a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately attitude. Sort of similar to ours today.

Sure we’ve heard about an everlasting God that goes back to the foundation of the world. Can’t see how that applies today.  Hey, this is the twenty-first century, nothing like it before!

Sorry, the world is pretty much as it was before. Some good, some bad, some seeking God, some reporting His irrelevance today no matter what happened before.

We build different gods.

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. (Isaiah 40:18-2 KJV)

I do think we’ve pretty much gotten past the graven image, as a whole. Now it’s digital images, subject to change as American Idol changes, or the stars that dance or … pick your own subject of adoration. For some, it’s the pastor of the church, not its bridegroom.

How can we compare what we’ve placed in the center of our lives with the God of Adam, Abraham, Israel? Have we not heard what He’s done? Rahab told the spies that she had heard about their battles:

For we have heard how the LORD … (Joshua 2:10a KJV)

A captain told Elijah that he had heard what happened to two before him:

And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. (2 Kings 1:13 KJV)

Jesus asked questions similar to Isaiah’s:

Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? (Mark 8:18 KJV)

Paul had some answers and new a new question:

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (Romans 10:13-14 KJV)

Now, find a preacher, and hear through him what the Bible says. Then, read it for yourself to see if what he said is in there.