Wed.’s Devo - The Good News to Come

Read: Isaiah 54:1-57:14; Ephesians 6:1-24: Psalm 70:1-5; Proverbs 24:8 Today’s reading in Isaiah could be addressed to the United States. It begins with telling those that have never had children to rejoice because they are about to have more children to take care of than they could have ever imagined. Roe vs. Wade was overturned leaving so many women who would want to abort, to choose to have their baby. These babies will need homes. America is living in disgrace with a puppet president who doesn’t put his own nation first but God is going to do something about all of that. We will no longer live in disgrace. Our embarrassing President will no longer be our “daddy” but the Lord will be our husband as a nation. God turned his face from us for a while so he could draw us back to Him with great joy. Our next generation will enjoy a time of great peace under a government that is just and fair. I see the “storm-battered city” as the Church. God will not send enemies against the Church again. If a group does come against us, we will defeat their lies quickly. No weapon that Satan tries to use against us will succeed. This is a promise to God’s children who follow him. God will vindicate his bride. All who are thirst and hungry to learn of God will come and freely be taught and fed God’s Word and enjoy His presence. The Church will be so relevant in this new season we are about to walk into that nations will come to see what we have and want if for themselves. God will pour out mercy and grace on all who come in repentance to Him. They will learn of God’s ways and his thoughts which are nothing like ours. God’s Word will go out of his people’s mouths and accomplish exactly what they were meant to accomplish. In other words, we will have what we say. God will put power behind our words and we will see miracles and healings at the sound of our voices because we will be speaking what God wants to say. When the Church returns to the Lord, even nature will respond. The ground will yield healthy crops. God encouraged his people that while they were waiting for all of this to happen they should be careful to walk in goodness. Be fair and just to everyone and do what is right and good. God has a word to the destitute and those who have given up on having an inheritance or a reputation to pass on. They should never think there is no hope for them or that they have done too great of sins to be forgiven. God can turn things around for them in an instant. He can take all their hopelessness and ruin and bless it and make something great from the ruins. On the other hand, God has some pointed rebukes to the wicked that use their power to hurt others and lead them down the wrong paths. They filled the earth with their Satanic symbols and their sins against humanity. God will expose their good deeds they did to cover up their evil ways. They will be exposed and dealt with. The false gods they trusted will not be able to help them. Those that trust in the Lord will inherit the earth and rebuild the road to salvation for God’s people. I don’t want to miss the part where it says that people who die before their time was God protecting them from the evil to come. This should give us comfort for those who we love who have died. In Ephesians, God has a word to the children, the fathers, the slaves and the masters. Children are to obey their parents. Fathers are to parent with love and patience, not anger and insults. Slaves are to respect their bosses and work for them as they would for Christ. Masters are to remember that they are Christ’s example to their workers and they are to treat them as Christ would. Then we are given the how-to on the armor of Christ that we are to wear daily so we can resist the devil. We are to stand our ground wearing the belt of truth, the body armor of righteousness, shoes of peace, holding the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation. We are to weild the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. We pray in the Spirit always for all believers everywhere. We agree with Paul’s prayer that we would have God’s peace, his love and his faithfulness. May God’s grace be eternally upon all who love our Lord Jesus Christ.