Isaiah 49

God’s Greeting Card

“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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You Ask Me Why

“Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ to those who are in

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Keep It Up

“And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.”” Isaiah 49:3-4 ESV Reflection: how can God be

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