Read: Isaiah 54-58
Isaiah 54 foretells of the day when Salvation through Christ will come to the Jew and the Gentile. The shame and desolation of the past will be done away with and joy and mercy will take its place. Our children will be taught the things of God and oppression will leave because our foundation will be righteousness.
Isaiah 55 speaks of the Word of God being our food and drink. When people choose the Lord over all else then our thoughts become His thoughts and our ways become His.
Isaiah 56 invites everyone to obey the Lord. His promises and blessings are for the eunuch as much as for the priest. Everyone who follows the Word and obeys the Lord is blessed and not forgotten.
In Isaiah 57, the righteous are taken from the evil to come but the wicked must suffer. They will be punished for their idolatry, their acts of persecution on the Christian, and the fact that they forgot God. God will heal the humble and restore those who cry to Him for help but punish the wicked.
Isaiah 58 describes mans self-righteous attempts to get God’s attention. God was not interested in their fasts because they refused to live for the Lord. The fast that gets God’s attention is one that gives bread to the poor, give shelter to the homeless, and that clothes the naked and that makes man aware of his own sinful state. Then we will be a light to the world, God’s righteousness will precede us and his mercy will be around us. If you we spiritual food to the hungry and build up those that are cast down, then our light will rise and we will be noticed and honored by the people. God will lead us and feed our spirits when everyone else is in a spiritual drought. We will be full of the spirit and walk in His ways.
Lord, may we turn from our own pleasures and do your will and speak your words today. We delight in You!
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