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 51: 1-8….Aah! What promises!
Note: There is a theme running through today’s passage. You will have probably already seen it but …. 1 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,you who seek the LORD:look to the rock from which you were hewn,and to the quarry from which you were dug.2 Look to Abraham your fatherand to Sarah who boreContinue reading “Isaiah 51: 1-8….Aah! What promises!”
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?”
Isaiah 49: 14-21….Aim straight!
Just over a fortnight ago, when I switched from Isaiah to Revelation, my final comment after v 13 and writing about Jesus, I wrote, ‘And what a blessing His coming has been and what an added blessing His return will be!’ So the first line of today’s portion is very sad. Read on…. 14 ButContinue reading “Isaiah 49: 14-21….Aim straight!”
Psalm 104: 1-4….You must be careful, and you’ll still make mistakes!
Information: This is my seventh day in Psalms. I usually rotate weekly between three Bible books. Psalm 104 has 35 verses and therefore I am going to divert – today I’m using these few verses (I’ll be back within 15 days) to consider how important it is to think through what words are meant toContinue reading “Psalm 104: 1-4….You must be careful, and you’ll still make mistakes!”
Psalm 103: 15-22….Bless the C’s
15 As for man, his days are like grass;he flourishes like a flower of the field;16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,and its place knows it no more. – We all know that this is true, but is it? On the basis that death is the end you may well assumeContinue reading “Psalm 103: 15-22….Bless the C’s”
Psalm 102: 1-11….Does God play hide and seek with us?
Introduction: A good percentage of Psalms say at the top who the author was, but not this one! At the top is written ‘A prayer of one afflicted!’ In these 11 verses of a 28 verse Psalm the writer gives us two main causes for his crying out to God for action on his behalf.Continue reading “Psalm 102: 1-11….Does God play hide and seek with us?”
Psalm 101: 1-8….I WILL walk with Integrity!
Introduction: (A lesson in English) do ‘will’ and ‘shall’ mean the same thing? My reading says that shall is becoming the lesser used of the two. If they mean the same, that is if they are alternative words as part of the future tense structure of English words, then just flip the coin and useContinue reading “Psalm 101: 1-8….I WILL walk with Integrity!”
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?”