Isaiah 51: 1-16 has been about God’s plan to send the Messiah and bring enormous blessing upon those whom He calls His people! v 17 must come as a rude shock if they have settled back into the comfort of knowing God’s plans and that they are held close to the heart of God! TheContinue reading “Isaiah 51 :17-23….Is this really God speaking?”
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Isaiah 51: 7-16….Encouraging and Chastising.
Note: The first portion written in blue is spoken to God by someone, maybe Isaiah as the prophet or a group of the leaders, but either way hopefully representing all of the people. The red writing was spoken by God to His people stating what He has and will do for those whom He hasContinue reading “Isaiah 51: 7-16….Encouraging and Chastising.”
Isaiah 50: 1-6….Who can sort this out to make sense?
Introduction: Isaiah 49 ended thus….‘Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.” Who is the ‘I’? God Almighty speaking as the promised Messiah, the promised Redeemer! Who is the ‘your’? At the beginning of today’s passage we have ‘your mother’. Presumably the ‘your’Continue reading “Isaiah 50: 1-6….Who can sort this out to make sense?”
Psalm 99: 1-9….Why should I bend my knee to anyone?
1 The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble!He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!2 The LORD is great in Zion;he is exalted over all the peoples.3 Let them praise your great and awesome name!Holy is he!4 The King in his might loves justice.You have established equity;you have executed justiceand righteousness in Jacob.5Continue reading “Psalm 99: 1-9….Why should I bend my knee to anyone?”
Revelation 21: 1-8….What a day!
Introduction: Yesterday the judgement of evil, individualized for the multiple billions of people who have ever lived since the world began was dealt with in five verses! I guess we are now no longer thinking in millenia, centuries, weeks, days and hours. Today in eight verses we deal with a) the destruction of our knownContinue reading “Revelation 21: 1-8….What a day!”
Isaiah 49: 6-13….Following on….
Introduction: So that we are on the same page as yesterday and following on I have repeated the final verse and comment from yesterday’s devotional. 6 he says:“It is too light a thing that you should be my servantto raise up the tribes of Jacoband to bring back the preserved of Israel;I will make youContinue reading “Isaiah 49: 6-13….Following on….”
Isaiah 48: 6-16….Mentally challenging!
6 “You have heard; now see all this;and will you not declare it?From this time forth I announce to you new things,hidden things that you have not known.7 They are created now, not long ago;before today you have never heard of them,lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’8 You have never heard, you haveContinue reading “Isaiah 48: 6-16….Mentally challenging!”
Isaiah 47: 9-15….You’re can rely on tomorrow to change your mind!
Introduction: The last comment which I made yesterday, after verse 8, read, “The author now quotes God, who, as Israel’s Redeemer, has become the spokesman of the prophecy! He tells them (the Chaldeans) that they were sent at His command to punish Israel for her unfaithfulness, but they had taken the liberty to go beyond whatContinue reading “Isaiah 47: 9-15….You’re can rely on tomorrow to change your mind!”
Psalm 98: 1-9….Break forth into joyous song!
Introduction: Maybe this Psalm would be ideally printed out and nailed somewhere so that you were thinking along these lines every single day! 1 Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! – think of one marvellous thing that God has done for you. His right hand and hisContinue reading “Psalm 98: 1-9….Break forth into joyous song!”
Psalm 94: 1-11….Does God have ears and eyes?
Introduction: I have seen some idols when in Asia. Most but not all have eyes and ears but these sculptured organs are useless! Just because idols cannot see there are many who think that Jehovah God is the same! They reason that they can do whatever they desire and their actions don’t have consequences! WhatContinue reading “Psalm 94: 1-11….Does God have ears and eyes?”