Yesterday, I promised one more important lesson from Isaiah 28, which ends with a lovely metaphor on the disciple-making process that I mentioned last week. I wrote about the lessons from Isaiah 28.23 – 29 in detail back in 2021. Here’s the summary with links to the original blogs, which I urge you to read for more detail:

Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech. Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground? (Isaiah 28.23, 24, ESV)

Repentance is important, but it’s not ongoing.

When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border? For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him. (Isaiah 28.25, 26, ESV)

We sow different kinds of seed according to individual differences, led by the Holy Spirit.

Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it. This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom. (Isaiah 28.27 – 29, ESV)

There are individual differences in bringing people to maturity also, and God is standing by to lead us in this area, too.

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. (Colossians 1.28, ESV)