What are you relying on to make you feel secure?

Your career?

Your savings?

Your reputation?

Your relationships?

Your influence?

Most of us build our confidence on something we believe will protect us when life becomes uncertain. But what happens if that source of security suddenly disappears?

In this episode of Practical Advice from the Scriptures, we explore Isaiah Chapter 20, one of the Bible's most unusual prophetic accounts. God instructs the prophet Isaiah to walk stripped of his outer garment and barefoot for three years as a living illustration of what would soon happen to Egypt and Ethiopia. These powerful nations, admired for their military strength and political influence, would be conquered and led away in humiliation.

It was a startling message.

Not because it predicted d ...