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22“As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the LORD, “so will your name and descendants endure.” Have you ever put yourself on the line, matching your reputation with an action, so that if the action doesn’t happen your reputation gets tarnished? Not many people do this.Continue reading “25Sept 2011 Isaiah 66:22”

8Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. It can be hard to realize and accept that we are just clay. Whether we look at the elements that make up the human body, or our smallness compared to the universe,Continue reading “24Sept 2011 Isaiah 64:8”

21Then will all your people be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor. Have you ever tried to get a job but were short one qualification? You met all the criteria except one. That is soContinue reading “23Sept 2011 Isaiah 60:21”

15For this is what the high and lofty One says—he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. We hear two elementsContinue reading “22Sept 2011 Isaiah 57:15”

9“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” I have two grandchildren. It is such an amazing thing to hear the development of their language. The three year old is using his language in very creative ways to express his viewContinue reading “21Sept 2011 Isaiah 55:9”

4Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. This section of Isaiah is one of the great prophecies of the Scriptures. It was written about 400 years before they were fulfilled in Jesus on the Cross. For four hundred years theContinue reading “20Sept 2011 Isaiah 53:4”

13Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. The LORD calls creation as a choir to testify about His greatness, his comfort and compassion for His people. Today we are bombarded with news conferences announcing aContinue reading “19Sept 2011 Isaiah 49:13”

12“Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and the last.” The God of the Scriptures has a way of calling a spade a spade. The LORD never tries to shy away from the Truth. We see in this passage the He claims a position inContinue reading “18Sept 2011 Isaiah 48:12”

6“This is what the LORD says–Israel’s King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty; I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.” These are some bold statements in the middle of this section of Isaiah. Isaiah has been busting on the idols of his day. The idols are justContinue reading “17Sept 2011 Isaiah 44:6”

3A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. I remember going camping and trying to start a campfire with damp wood. What a chore! I had to protect even the smallest hopes of a flame in order to keep the fire going, let alone encourage it enoughContinue reading “16Sept 2011 Isaiah 42:3”