Without a smartphone or a GPS, how do you think I helped my wife get home? I asked her a series of questions. But moving to a major metropolitan area created a major new challenge. Our previous hometown had a few main roads, and the routes were not that complicated. Frankly, when we lived in Michigan, there was no need for either of them.
This was before she owned an iPhone with a navigation app and prior to purchasing a GPS navigator. “Mark, I’m downtown and I can’t figure out how to get home. The tone of her greeting told me that she’d been crying. Shortly after our family moved to Indianapolis, I received a panicked phone call from my wife. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged (Isa. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
