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LORD’S DAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18
Isaiah 64
Psalm 39
"LORD, make me
to know mine end…"
FROM THANKSGIVING TO SUPPLICATION
The prophet asked Jehovah not only to "look down from heaven" (Isa 63:15), but also to "rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down" (Isa 64:1). And how all the mountains would melt as He comes in consuming fire (cf. Ps 68:8, Exod 19:18).
On Isaiah 64:4 Ellicott commented, "The sense is not that God alone knows what He hath prepared, but that no man knows (sight and hearing being used as including all forms of spiritual apprehension) any god who does such great things as He does. St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 2:9, applies the words freely, after his manner, to the eternal blessings which God prepares for His people."
In contrast with God’s wrath as manifested in His coming to judge the world, God’s people, who humble themselves and acknowledge their unworthiness and their sins, are spared. As Israel comes to God as her Father and Maker, and acknowledges she is but the work of His hands, she can expect mercy and pardon.
Isaiah 64:10-12 is a prophetic view of the coming destruction of Jerusalem in the days of a later prophet, viz., Jeremiah. This is cited in support of Israel’s supplication to God for mercy.
THOUGHT: "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." (Isa 64:6)
PRAYER: "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the Potter; I am the clay. Mould me and make me after Thy will, While I am waiting, yielded and still."
Posted in Adult RPG
Isaiah 64
Psalm 39
"LORD, make me
to know mine end…"
FROM THANKSGIVING TO SUPPLICATION
The prophet asked Jehovah not only to "look down from heaven" (Isa 63:15), but also to "rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down" (Isa 64:1). And how all the mountains would melt as He comes in consuming fire (cf. Ps 68:8, Exod 19:18).
On Isaiah 64:4 Ellicott commented, "The sense is not that God alone knows what He hath prepared, but that no man knows (sight and hearing being used as including all forms of spiritual apprehension) any god who does such great things as He does. St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 2:9, applies the words freely, after his manner, to the eternal blessings which God prepares for His people."
In contrast with God’s wrath as manifested in His coming to judge the world, God’s people, who humble themselves and acknowledge their unworthiness and their sins, are spared. As Israel comes to God as her Father and Maker, and acknowledges she is but the work of His hands, she can expect mercy and pardon.
Isaiah 64:10-12 is a prophetic view of the coming destruction of Jerusalem in the days of a later prophet, viz., Jeremiah. This is cited in support of Israel’s supplication to God for mercy.
THOUGHT: "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." (Isa 64:6)
PRAYER: "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the Potter; I am the clay. Mould me and make me after Thy will, While I am waiting, yielded and still."
Posted in Adult RPG