*‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭20:2‬ ‭NIV* “at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.”‬‬

*20:2* God’s command to Isaiah was to walk about naked for three years, a humiliating experience. God was using Isaiah to demonstrate the humiliation that Egypt and Cush would experience at the hands of Assyria. But the message was really for Judah: Don’t put your trust in foreign governments, or you will experience this kind of shame from your captors. Human governments and institutions can never take God’s place.

*20:2 cont* God asked Isaiah to do something that seemed shameful and illogical. At times, God may ask us to take steps we don’t understand. We must obey God in complete faith, for he will never ask us to do something wrong.