Fri.’s Devo - A Nail in a Sure Place

Read: Is. 18-22
Today’s reading is God’s promise to judge unrighteousness. I want to concentrate on Chapter 22 since I think it pertains to us more than the rest. It was against the “valley or vision” which means their revelation of God. It looks like things that should have been hidden were not and the obvious was hidden from them because of their distance from God. Their walls were breached and their enemies were spoiling them. Sounds like us today. They did things without asking God. God had called them to repent and mourn for their sins but instead they partied and were merry. They thought that God would wait and judge after they had died, but God had a surprise for them. They would be judged before they died and they would be taken into captivity. But to the ones who have been faithful like Eliakim, God will clothe with a robe and give him the power to lead. He will have the key of David to open and shut. The overcomers will be like a “nail in a sure place” which means they will be strong and hold up the feeble. Jesus was the ultimate support. He was given a robe of righteousness and the girdle of truth but he passed that on to us. We have to be that support for our Christian brothers and remind them that now is not the time to be fearful or timid. We have been given the keys to the kingdom and whatever we bind on earth has been bound in heaven already and whatever we loose on earth, has been loosed in heaven.
Lord, help us to walk in the authority that Jesus walked in because He is in us. Help us to be that nail in a sure place for someone today.