““Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” Isaiah 55:1 ESV Reflection: thinking back at your life, what has been the most valuable? The world teaches us one important rule – the relationship between what […]
““See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;” Isaiah 54:16 NIV Reflection: why would God create, prepare and equip “a destroyer”? Today we need to look at a topic
““This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.” Isaiah 54:9 ESV Reflection: what was God’s purpose with the flood during the days
“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” Isaiah 53:3 ESV Reflection: why was, and still is, Jesus Christ despised and rejected by men? We try to make sense of things
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“Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” Isaiah 52:9-10 ESV Reflection: looking at
“And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” Isaiah 51:11 ESV Reflection: what is the big picture, of everything? You have probably heard the phrase, “a picture is worth
““Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples. My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and
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“Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind— so shall he sprinkle many nations.” Isaiah 52:13-15a ESV Reflection: have you actually looked
“Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.” Isaiah 50:1 ESV Reflection: how can divorce ever be
“Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.” Isaiah 49:16 ESV Reflection: if God was to write you a greeting card, what do you think it would say? You might have found yourself, like I have so many times, standing in the greeting card isle for
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