(Isa 20:2) At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.Most, reading this story about the Old Testament prophet Isaiah, focus on his naked three year walk as an object lesson of God's coming wrath. This time I noticed the sackcloth underwear.
Sackcloth, known to us as burlap, was a course, scratchy, and uncomfortable material not usually intended for underclothes - except in times of extreme mourning, repentance and crying out to God. Isaiah, that fiery prophet, had been wearing sackcloth!
True men and women of God, like Isaiah, pronounce judgments not in anger or hate but in love, always crying out to God for mercy and grace. Pharisees can't understand this, but Jesus did,
Mat 9:13 "But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."-fritz
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