Fri.’s Devo - God’s Promise

Read: Isaiah 25:1-28:13; Galatians 3:10-22; Palm 61:1-8; Proverbs 23:17-18 These verses read like today’s newspaper from God to us. Chapter 25 is giving thanksgiving for the overthrow of the apostate government. It is a decree to the glory of God and what he is doing to the wicked in the nations. God will turn the arrogant cities into ruins and be a tower of refuge to the poor. God will spread a wonderful feast for all the people of the world and remove gloom and the shadow of death that hangs over them. He will swallow up death forever! He will remove the mockery and insults against his land and his people. God bless America and his nations of the earth! The people will proclaim that the Lord is their God. Jerusalem and God’s people (that includes us) will be blessed. The wicked which are called Moab here will be deposed and demolished. Everyone in the land of Judah (which stands for the godly of the earth) will sing for joy because they were protected in God’s walls of salvation. God smooths out our path and leads us in the middle of war. It even says that God will make our nation great again. MAGA! They humbled themselves and repented of their sins and God restored them. God will do that for us. In 26:20 it says to go home and lock your doors and hide for a little while until God has punished the sinners of the nation. God will no longer hide those who have been killed but expose what they did for all to see. This reminds me of what happened in the nursing homes in New York and other cities. Then, God will punish the spirit, Leviathan, who was behind all that went on on the earth. His followers will have a chance to repent or be judged. God doesn’t punish his people like he punishes Satan’s. They are destroyed but God’s people are sent in exile to be punished for a while. Then he brings them back and restores them and blesses them. God has a lot to say about Samaria, capital of Israel. He calls it the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel. They will be trampled beneath its enemies’ feet. Instead of drink being Israel’s crown, God’s army will be its glorious crown. God only breaks down to heal. In Galatians, Paul explains why following the law will not make you saved. The law says that you will be cursed if you don’t follow it to the letter. So one mistake causes you to be cursed, unsaved. It is impossible to be saved by the law. Christ rescued us from this curse. He took our curse with him on the cross. God gave a promise of salvation to Abraham and now we see that promise and have it available to us. Abraham’s promise was given before the law so why did we need the law? The law showed us our sins and was only designed to last until the promise came. The promise came in Jesus. We are a prisoner to sin until we receive God’s promise by faith. Lord, your salvation is truly the promise! Thank you for becoming our curse that we might be free to serve you out of love. Thank you that you will restore our nation back to you.