Fri.’s Devo- Salvation Has Come

Read: Isaiah 40-43
Isaiah is set up like the Bible. The Bible has sixty-six chapters. Thirty-nine are in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New. Isaiah forty starts the switch to the new which is full of grace, mercy, hope and redemption. It starts with words of comfort because the sad days are over. God tells Isaiah to shout the good news, for the Lord is coming with a reward. He is coming to gather and shepherd his people. Those who trust in him will find new strength. They will mount up and be victorious over their enemies and you will rejoice in the Lord. The desert will pool with water and the parched ground will grow trees. When you see this happening you will realize that prophecy is being fulfilled.
In Isaiah 42 we see the promise of Jesus who will have God’s Spirit and bring justice to the nations. They were to sing a new song to the Lord. They had sung songs of sadness and oppression because they were in bondage, but it was now time to sing songs of deliverance and joy. God had ransomed them and called them by name. From now on, nothing would be able to destroy them. Isn’t this the promise of salvation? Everything becomes new…we get a new song of a future and a hope. God will be with us through the deep troubles of life and nothing can harm us or consume us. God is with us. God is the only one who can predict the future because he wrote it. God told them that all the things he did during the great exodus of Moses is nothing compared to what he is about to do for them.
This is our promise! If you are looking at your desperate circumstance and think it is even impossible for God, know that God is saying it is not. He can deliver us from the worse problems. He always knows a way to wholeness and victory. We can trust him.
One of my scriptures I hold on to is found in Isaiah 44:3b-4, “And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children. They will thrive like water glass, like wills on a riverbank.”
Lord, thank you for your Word which is full of promises for our future. We lift our heads and look to you.