Where to Follow Righteousness

Isaiah 51:1-2 KJV

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

The context of the passage has Isaiah preaching prophetically to the Jews in Babylonian captivity more than a century into the future. But because of the terminology there is a wonderful application to those of any era that "follow after righteousness and seek the Lord." We are told exactly where to look when we seek to follow righteousness and the Lord. We are to look to "the rock from whence we were hewn and the hole of the pit from whence we were digged." The interpretation is not left to our imaginations; the rock is Abraham and the hole of the pit is Sarah.

That God says to look to these two gives further vindication that this passage has New Testament applications.

• Abraham is said to be the father of faith.
• All who are believers today are called the seed and children of Abraham.
• "Abraham," the Bible says, "believed God and it was accounted unto him for righteousness."

Those then, who follow after righteousness, do well to look to Abraham the cornerstone of salvation gotten by faith and not of works.

But I am reminded that when the Pharisees told Jesus that Abraham was their father His reply was, "Before Abraham was, I am." We find righteousness by following the example of Abraham, but we find the Lord by looking past Abraham to the One who

• Was with Abraham
• Was worshipped by Abraham and
• Was eternally before Abraham

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