Good evening, everyone!
Today I read Isaiah 42-44.
Today's reading continued like yesterday's, with statements about who God is, and how there is none like Him. Who can do the things our God can? Who is comparable to Him?
Isaiah 43:1-2 - But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel, "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you."
God is always with us. Through the storm. Through the fire. Through troubles. He never leaves us nor forsakes us, and He will protect us and help us.
Isaiah 43:10-11 - "You are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me. I, even I, am the LORD, and there is no savior besides Me."
Isaiah 43:11-13 "I, even I, am the LORD, and there is no savior besides Me. It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, and there was no strange god among you; so you are My witnesses," declares the LORD, "And I am God. Even from eternity I am He, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"
When God acts, no one can reverse it. Whatever He has planned for our lives, it is for our good, to prosper us and to take care of us. And no one can reverse it.
All we have to do is call upon the Lord, to seek Him and serve Him.
And sometimes that isn't easy, but it is so much better than the alternative. I've been there. I've served myself. I've served the world. I've done the worldly things that were supposed to make me happy. And none of it did. But God does. Serving Him does.
The more I serve Him, the more I want to serve Him. The more I learn of Him, the more I want to learn.
Isn't it amazing? Who can fathom the depths of God's character? No matter how much we learn, there is always more to learn. No one can ever fully understand Him. And yet He gave us His word so that we could connect with Him, could begin to understand Him. Because He loves us.
And isn't that amazing? That our God, so powerful, so full of infinite wisdom, loves us, despite all our faults and all our sins, and all the times He knew we would mess up.
I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read Isaiah 45-48.
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