America and the Sure Mercies of David
By the Watchman Dana G Smith

Isaiah 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Isaiah speaks directly to this generation. The trouble with America’s generation today is that they are deaf, so they cannot hear. Add to this the blindness of many so they cannot see and you have precisely what Israel faced in Isaiah’s day. Many of the people of Isaiah’s day heard a prophet that declared Gods displeasure with the sin of the people not only in Judah and Israel but with the surrounding nations. Isaiah being called by many today as the prophet of ‘Messianic proportions’ and ‘evangelical aims’ calls out to our day and age with many parallel truths from the word of God. One of the greatest portions of scripture is Isaiah 55.
Isaiah 6:9 ¶And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
It is in this chapter that we read the famous verses which has made a call to many people over the ages. Everyone that thirsts is bidden to come. The one who is thirsty can find refreshment for his soul, quenching for the sin burden spirit, and find the richness of forgiveness and redemption in the ’sure mercies of David’. In today’s society it is hard to understand getting something for nothing. But the truth is, the ’sure mercies of David’ will cost you no money, with no price for man to buy it, however, it does cost you discipleship.