Got your ears on?

Step 4 of the LifeWay lesson “Do you live according to God’s truth?” is based on Isaiah 30:12-17. Instead of quiet confidence in God’s plan, the Judahites made their horses ready to run away on the day of battle, but forgot that victory rests with the Lord (Proverbs 21:31). They hoped to outrun the Assyrians when attacked, but after reeading Isaiah’s message, that'd be like trying to outrun an explosion (scroll down), an impossibility (Proverbs 21:30). Isaiah was a “party pooper”.

LifeWay titles step 4 as “Receive God’s Message”. Does receiving the message from You Can Run but You Cannot Hide make you want to run (i.e. say, "Enough is enough!")? I liked how the video portrays a change in attitude of the church members!

Judah’s leaders mistakenly thought they could get away with a lifestyle of tricking and bullying others. They “pulled the wool over people’s eyes”, and “lorded it over others", but they didn’t have their “ears on” to hear God’s message. What other sayings can you associate with Isaiah 30:12-17? Did LifeWay's "a stitch in time saves nine" make sense to you?