Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

“It will not be possible to make me shut up.  I will not stop talking, proclaiming, or preaching…. I will not pause.  I will not rest, for the sake of the precious city God loved and left, and I will keep this up until every nation and king can see that Jerusalem has been declared innocent and lifted up to a place of glory and honor.”  (Working Preacher, Anathea Portier-Young)   It will not be possible to make me shut up!  These are the prophet Isaiah’s words as he boldly acts as intercessor for Jerusalem.  Following the exile, when the Jewish people returned to their land, it was decimated, and it seemed to them like a desert.  The restoration and rebuilding of Jerusalem met countless obstacles and delays. The Jewish people had been full of hope but, upon return to their homeland, they were battling deteriorating morale caused by broken dreams and crumbling faith.  They felt God had turned away in indifference.           So, Isaiah laments and boldly protests, interceding on the people’s behalf, and he holds