Introduction: The coloured portions of today’s reading let us know a) who is speaking, b) what the listening attitude of the hearers is to be, and c) God’s aim, His purpose in acting this way! The portion in black is poetical and needs background context and some study to understand. Remember that those of JudeaContinue reading “Isaiah 43: 14-21….It needs the eye of Faith to see it!”
Category Archives: Messiah
Isaiah 42: 18-25….Are people, on the whole, good listeners?
Introduction: This is the third devotional on Isaiah ch 42. I have followed the three divisions in the chapter as shown in the ESV translation. The titles are – ‘The Lord’s chosen servant’, ‘Sing to the Lord a New Song’ and ‘Israel’s failure to Hear and See’. Fundamentally they talk about the promised Messiah (unnamed,Continue reading “Isaiah 42: 18-25….Are people, on the whole, good listeners?”
Isaiah 42: 1-9….Of whom is this speaking?
Introduction: This is a passage from the Bible. Read it and as you read it, think to yourself ‘Who fits this picture?’ And go further – think, Does this person fit the picture perfectly?’ The LORD’S Chosen Servant1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold,my chosen, in whom my soul delights;I have put my Spirit uponContinue reading “Isaiah 42: 1-9….Of whom is this speaking?”
Revelation: 1:9-20….Can True Love not be involved in Discipline and Judgement?
9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me aContinue reading “Revelation: 1:9-20….Can True Love not be involved in Discipline and Judgement?”
Isaiah 33: 17-14….Does God expect us to use our brains?
Introduction: Thinking in a single plane (eg an x-y graph) and thinking with an added dimension (an x-y-z graph) makes the problem and the answer very different! We tend, as human beings, to easily forget that we live in a ‘space’ which is anything but a flat plane.We can easily remember the ups and downsContinue reading “Isaiah 33: 17-14….Does God expect us to use our brains?”