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A COVENANT GOD RETURNS TO HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10
Isaiah 43:1-28
Psalm 21:7-13
"Be thou exalted, LORD,
in thine own strength…"
A COVENANT GOD RETURNS TO HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE
In spite of her sins, God (who has made a covenant with Israel as His chosen people) returns to her; like a loving husband to his wayward wife (Isa 54:1-8). The prophet assured the people (whom God loves) a safe passage of return from many quarters to their homeland under the new regime of the Persians. Though Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba would greatly suffer in the invasion, Israel would be kept intact through "deep water and flaming fire," as the Chinese saying goes.
As the nations had no knowledge of the future, but God is the living and true God who knows the end from the beginning, and Israel whom He had chosen are His witnesses, therefore let all know that He is the Lord and only Saviour, and no one can resist what God will do.
In saving Israel, God would bring down Babylon and the Chaldeans, as He had defeated the Egyptians in the Red Sea (Isa 43:16-17). God would do another miracle, a new thing, by leading His people (out of Babylon) safely through the desert.
But though God was so gracious to His people, they remained so clumsily inert. They did not show their gratitude in offerings that were expected of them. God nevertheless forgave Israel not for any merit of theirs, but rather for His own sake. As for their captivity, they were all to blame. From their first father Jacob they had been a wayward, sinning people.
In this long sermon that the prophet had preached to Israel, do we not see a clear reflection of the sins of the Church and of ourselves in our complacency and hardened ingratitude?
THOUGHT: "Some thru’ the waters, some thru’ the flood, Some thru’ the fire, but all thru’ the blood; Some through great sorrow, but God gives a song. In the night season and all the day long."
PRAYER: I thank Thee, O Lord, for Thy great love for me, an undeserving sinner. Forgive me for I have not loved Thee as I ought.
Posted in Adult RPG
Isaiah 43:1-28
Psalm 21:7-13
"Be thou exalted, LORD,
in thine own strength…"
A COVENANT GOD RETURNS TO HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE
In spite of her sins, God (who has made a covenant with Israel as His chosen people) returns to her; like a loving husband to his wayward wife (Isa 54:1-8). The prophet assured the people (whom God loves) a safe passage of return from many quarters to their homeland under the new regime of the Persians. Though Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba would greatly suffer in the invasion, Israel would be kept intact through "deep water and flaming fire," as the Chinese saying goes.
As the nations had no knowledge of the future, but God is the living and true God who knows the end from the beginning, and Israel whom He had chosen are His witnesses, therefore let all know that He is the Lord and only Saviour, and no one can resist what God will do.
In saving Israel, God would bring down Babylon and the Chaldeans, as He had defeated the Egyptians in the Red Sea (Isa 43:16-17). God would do another miracle, a new thing, by leading His people (out of Babylon) safely through the desert.
But though God was so gracious to His people, they remained so clumsily inert. They did not show their gratitude in offerings that were expected of them. God nevertheless forgave Israel not for any merit of theirs, but rather for His own sake. As for their captivity, they were all to blame. From their first father Jacob they had been a wayward, sinning people.
In this long sermon that the prophet had preached to Israel, do we not see a clear reflection of the sins of the Church and of ourselves in our complacency and hardened ingratitude?
THOUGHT: "Some thru’ the waters, some thru’ the flood, Some thru’ the fire, but all thru’ the blood; Some through great sorrow, but God gives a song. In the night season and all the day long."
PRAYER: I thank Thee, O Lord, for Thy great love for me, an undeserving sinner. Forgive me for I have not loved Thee as I ought.
Posted in Adult RPG