Who is blind but My servant, Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me, Or so blind as the servant of the Lord? ~ Isaiah 42:19NASB1995
If you think about this statement by the LORD, it is pretty frightening. He is not talking about the blindness or the deafness of the heathens, or those who hate Him. No, God is talking about His own people. His own servants. These people who are supposed to be working for Him. The ones who should have a close relationship with Him. But instead of closeness we find distance. Instead of intimacy, we find lukewarmness.
Just because we claim a relationship with the Almighty God does not mean we have one. God’s people, the ones who should know Him intimately and serve Him wholeheartedly, are the very ones who are trampling the blood of Jesus underfoot and making the name of His Holy One something common. That’s why God asks the question in Isaiah 1:5: “Why will you be struck anymore?”
In other words, why continue to rebel after He has redeemed you with His own blood, and now you’re receiving just punishment, punishment that He takes no pleasure in. It is not God’s will that anyone perish, but that all come to repentance. But we refuse to draw close to God because we love the pleasures of the world. Let us forsake evil and turn from feeding our lukewarmness and cling to God in pursuit of holiness.