“‘Has not my hand made all these things and so they came into being?’ declares the Lord. ‘These are the ones I look on with favour: those who are humble and contrite in spirit and who tremble at my word.'” Isaiah 66:2
To look on with favour does not mean that unending blessings will flow our way. It also does not mean that we are looked upon as being better than someone or something else. What it does mean, is to like and approve of, or to regard someone or something favourably.
Humble – having or showing a modest or low estimate on one’s own importance.
Contrite – feeling or expressing sincere remorse, filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement.
The Lord has made all things – there is nothing that we can do and nothing that we can offer to Him, that He can not do nor provide on his own. Yet He still invites us to have a relationship with Him. It is when we are humble, our heart is contrite, and we are reverently responsive to what He says, that we are looked upon with favour.
Who better to receive favour than from the One who created all things.
Lock Your Wings 
This stood out for me: “I will send them great trouble— all the things they feared. For when I called, they did not answer. When I spoke, they did not listen. They deliberately sinned before my very eyes and chose to do what they know I despise.””
Isaiah 66:4 NLT
I was just saying that the traditional memorized verses from Isaiah seem to hold so much hope and I never realized Isaiah had so much condemnation and a promise of consequences for sinful behaviour. Maybe that’s because we white wash the effects of sin so much that we don’t even realize the full extent of what it means to have our sin separate us from our creator. We prefer to focus on the fact that Isaiah promises the arrival of our saviour rather than Isaiah’s promise that justice will be served. When we know the truth (sin separates us from God) we repent and when we don’t we face the consequences for our inaction.
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