“I WILL DO IT!”

 

Isaiah 46:8-11                         (ESV)

    “[8] “Remember this and stand firm,

        recall it to mind, you transgressors, 

    [9]     remember the former things of old;

    for I AM GOD, and THERE IS NO OTHER;

        I AM GOD, and THERE IS NONE LIKE ME, 

    [10] declaring the end from the beginning

        and from ancient times things not yet done,

    saying, ‘MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND,

        and I WILL ACCOMPLISH ALL MY PURPOSE,’ 

    [11] calling a bird of prey from the east,

        the man of my counsel from a far country.

    I HAVE SPOKEN, and I WILL BRING IT TO PASS;

        I HAVE PURPOSED, and “I WILL DO IT”.”

Almost the entire 46th chapter of Isaiah is in quotation marks, as Isaiah was writing what YAHWEH had spoken to him.  “‘MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND, and I WILL ACCOMPLISH ALL MY PURPOSE’” doesn’t appear to me that GOD is trying to be passive or soft-spoken!   

“Remember this and stand firm” and “I AM GOD, and THERE IS NO OTHER; I AM GOD, and THERE IS NONE LIKE ME” should make it rather plain that HE isn’t interested in negotiating terms of obedience and compromise.  HE IS GOING TO BE GLORIFIED, whether mankind likes it OR NOT!  

Regardless of how this MESSAGE is received, “I HAVE SPOKEN, and I WILL BRING IT TO PASS; I HAVE PURPOSED, and “I WILL DO IT” needs to be accepted as basically a STATEMENT OF FACT!  When GOD says something IS going to happen, we need to understand that “I WILL DO IT” is coming!!!  ARE YOU READY???