Sun.’s Devo - God Will Respond

Read: Isaiah 48:12-50:11; Ephesians 4:17-32; Psalm 69:1-18; Proverbs 24:5-6 God had explained yesterday that he had declared all the things from the past from the beginning of time. Now he was going to do something he had never done before and no one would be able to figure it out because they had never seen anything like it before. No one could say, I told you it would happen like this. God was going to release them from Babylon. God called Israel from their conception and declared that they would bring him glory. They would do more than just restore Israel back to Him, they would be a light to the Gentiles and bring salvation to the whole earth. God would exalt them and even kings would honor Israel. At just the right time, God would respond and help them. God would once again be their Shepherd and lead them beside still waters and restore their souls. He will comfort his people and have compassion on their suffering. God would bring them back from the corners of the earth to live in their own land, their own nation. God will demand that tyrants let his captives go. They will come back with their own wealth returned to them. Isaiah was a type of Israel. His face was set like a flint to see what God saw and declare it and act on it. Israel would be the same. They will see that the Lord was on their side and what he declared would happen. They were to trust in the Lord and rely on him as their God. We are living in days similar to theirs. We have been held hostage to an evil slavery system ruled by servants of Satan. God is going to deliver us out of this system and bring change to the whole earth in the political, economic, educational, entertainment, business and medical world. He is going to do something he has never done before and we can not predict it. We have no grid to see it because it will be something new. God will do it at just the right time and we will be the head and not the tail anymore as Christians. It will be glorious! In Ephesians, Paul described the life of the lost. Their minds were full of darkness because they had closed their minds and hardened their hearts abasing him. They had no sense of shame and lived for lustful pleasure. Paul told the Christians to not live like they did but to put on Christ and his nature. He listed things to stop doing: lying, anger, stealing, and using foul and abusive language. Instead they should speak the truth, forgive, use their hand for good, give generously to those in need and let every thing that came out of their mouths edify the hearer. Bring joy to the Holy Spirit by the way you live. Lord, we look expectantly for You to move in our world. We know that You will and that it will be glorious. While we are waiting may we put on Christ and walk in power and authority as your children.