When you worry about your future or consider deep life questions, who do you listen to? Often I go to the internet for answers, which provides me with conflicting opinions and plenty to stress about. Perhaps there’s a better way.

Isaiah hammered those around him who sought out dubious sources of wisdom. When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Instead of dead ends Isaiah offered, Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

God’s instructions alone provided wisdom for the lost people of Israel, just as the Holy Scriptures radiate guidance today.

Mediums and spiritists, social media guides and internet rabbit holes steer us astray. Better to consult the Word of God, which leads out of darkness into the light of dawn.

Isaiah 8 in Through the Bible in 2024

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