Isaiah 48:50

As I read through Isaiah 48-50 this morning, I felt like I was walking on Holy ground.  God is speaking through Isaiah to the people of Israel, but also to me and to each of us.   It is always amazing to me how the word of God can do what no other book that I have read can do.  On the surface the message is clearly for someone else but as we read it , we can often hear our God speak to our own hearts to instruct, encourage and comfort. Today, His word through Isaiah did all three.

For example in Isaiah Chapter 49, Jesus speaks and declares His mission. In 49:3 He tells Israel that she is His servant in whom He will be glorified.

And in verse 4 hear the heart of Jesus...

Then I said, 'I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
Yet surely my just reward is with the LORD,
And my work with my God.' "

Don’t you feel like that at times...like you have labored in vain and have spent your strength for nothing?  You are not alone, Jesus suffered the same things and His footsteps are our pathway.  How did He handle discouragement as a Man?  The same way we need to...by placing our confidence in God.  “Surely, my just reward is with The Lord and my work with my God.” ❤️

God has a purpose for each and every moment of the life we live in this fallen world.  He has chosen us in Him since before the foundation of the world.  He heard Jesus’ prayer and He will hear ours because we are accepted in the Beloved.

Thus says the LORD:

"In an acceptable time I have heard You,
And in the day of salvation I have helped You;
I will preserve You and give You
As a covenant to the people,
To restore the earth,
To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;—Isaiah 49:8

We can trust Him...we can sing for the Lord has comforted His people and will have mercy on His afflicted. He will not forget us, we are inscribed on the palms of His hands and our “walls” are continually before Him.