In The Word Read: Isaiah 56-57 Rewards for Obedience to God 56 This is what the Lord says: “Guard justice and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come And My righteousness to be revealed. 2 Blessed is a man who does this, And a son of man who takes hold of it; Who keeps from […]
Month: January 2024
Scandalous Invitation
In The Word Read: Isaiah 55 The Free Offer of Mercy 55 “You there! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost. 2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what […]
Wait With Anticipation
In The Word Read: Isaiah 54 The Fertility of Zion 54 “Shout for joy, infertile one, you who have not given birth to any child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor; For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous Than the sons of the […]
From Obscurity To Exaltation
In The Word Read: Isaiah 52:13-53:12 The Exalted Servant 13 Behold, My Servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. 14 Just as many were appalled at you, My people, So His appearance was marred beyond that of a man, And His form beyond the sons of mankind. 15 So He will […]
Awake
In The Word Read: Isaiah 51:17-52:12 17 Pull yourself up! Pull yourself up! Arise, Jerusalem! You who have drunk from the Lord’s hand the cup of His anger; The chalice of staggering you have drunk to the dregs. 18 There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth, Nor […]
You Are My People
In The Word Read: Isaiah 50:4-51:16 4 The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples, So that I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. 5 The Lord God has opened My ear, And I was […]
If You Will Just Believe
In The Word Read: Isaiah 49:1-50:3 Salvation Reaches to the Ends of the Earth 49 Listen to Me, you islands, And pay attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called Me from the womb; From the body of My mother He named Me. 2 He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow […]
God’s Relentless Grace
In The Word Read: Isaiah 48 Israel’s Obstinacy 48 “Hear this, house of Jacob, who are named Israel And who came from the waters of Judah, Who swear by the name of the Lord And invoke the God of Israel, But not in truth nor in righteousness. 2 For they name themselves after the holy city, […]
One Who Is Close
In The Word Read: Isaiah 46-47 Babylon’s Idols and the True God 46 Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over; Their idols have become loads for the animals and the cattle. The things that you carry are burdensome, A load for the weary animal. 2 They stooped over, they have bowed down together; They could not […]
No One Beside Him
In The Word Read: Isaiah 44:24-45:25 24 This is what the Lord says, He who is your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb: “I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself And spreading out the earth alone, 25 Causing the omens of diviners to fail, […]