When God told Isaiah to “Go, and remove your sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet,” (Isaiah 20:2) He did so.
Romans 8:35 asks us “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Shall nakedness?? No.
1 Corinthians 3 reminds us “… the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.”
When God asks us to do something seemingly foolish and stupid, are we going to deny Him? Isaiah could have said “No Lord! I don’t want to walk around naked (who does?)!” and God would not have forced him. Instead however, Isaiah realized that what the world may point and laugh at, God uses for a bigger purpose. Because Isaiah recognized the foolishness to be wisdom of God it is, Abba uses him to get a point across.
“And the LORD said, ‘Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush, so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush…”
-Isaiah 20:3-4
How willing are we to hear and then to act upon those orders without questioning ourselves into disobedience?
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