31:3
Notice the fundamental challenge to our worldview here. The Egyptians seemed to be more real than God. What we see as the practicalities of life seem more real and important than God, more likely to have a real impact on our life. But that is not the case! It says here that the horses are just flesh, but the Lord is spirit, therefore He is the more important. If we want things to change, if we want ourselves to change, then we need to look to the Lord above all. Now this most definitely does not mean that the material things, the practical things, do not matter. Rather it is a case of the priority we give to them. Who do we make god? The Lord, or the material things? When we acknowledge the Lord as God then the practical and material things assume their proper place and become truly useful. The Lord would frustrate Judah’s plans. Egypt would stumble, as would those who relied on Egypt.
31:4,5
So Judah was relying on the wrong source of help. One might have expected there to be another round of judgement upon Judah, but instead we get a promise of salvation, of rescue. The Lord will rescue Jerusalem, despite all the foes ranged against it. And this is what happened when Assyria was right at the walls of Jerusalem. It is the Lord’s decision that is determinative, not the will of men.
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