Read Through the Bible in a Year 2018 Day 220: God's Word Returns to Him Fruitful

Good morning, everyone!

Today I read Isaiah 54-58, and I want to share a few verses that I found inspiring this morning.

Isaiah 54:17 - "No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me," declares the LORD.

This verse is used often, but most people only use the first part. In fact, I didn't even know there was more to it, but I really like the whole thing. If I were to use this verse, I wouldn't stop at the first part.

Part 1 - No weapon will prosper against us.
Part 2 - We will condemn every tongue that accuses us.
Part 3 - This is the authority God has given to those who serve Him.

The whole verse is so important. You can't just leave part of it out. Especially part 3. You can't have the first two parts without the third.

Isaiah 55:6-8 - Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."

We will never fully understand God, and especially not while we are in our mortal bodies. He alone is God, and none can fully understand Him. He knows everything, and His thoughts stretch farther than ours. We can't even imagine them.

Isaiah 55:10-11 - "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it."

This is why we should read God's word. Well, one reason. God's word does not return to Him void. It stretches out, plants seeds, and He reaps the harvest.

I want to continually learn of Him, and I want to grow through His word. I also want His word to return to Him from my life fruitful.

I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read Isaiah 59-63.