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March 15, 2022

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Reading along with us in Isaiah? Here’s today’s reading:

Isaiah 48 (NIV)

Stubborn Israel
1 “Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob,
you who are called by the name of Israel
and come from the line of Judah,
you who take oaths in the name of the Lord
and invoke the God of Israel—
but not in truth or righteousness—
2 you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city
and claim to rely on the God of Israel—
the Lord Almighty is his name:.........Continue Reading

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  1. Easy to talk about Gods chosen people. Who continue to walk away. Well how about our lives!! Thank God he saved us not because of who we are. But because of his immeasurable love for us. Vs 10. Refine you in the furnace of affliction. I’m learning not to complain but to turn to God in faith. I spend to much time looking at the obstacles. All things work for good for those who love him and been called to his purpose. I’m still learning!! My faith and trust needs to grow. And I believe that is what God is teaching!!

  2. Amen Mark! It has been a common refrain in Isaiah that I spite of all that God is and has done for His people, they have rebelled. But God has told them clearly what would happen, even letting them know of their disobedience, so that they could see that He is in control and He is the One worthy of worship and following. He knew that they were stubborn and yet He chose them. (We could say the same for ourselves, Amen?). But He has called them and disciplined them for His own sake, for His own glory. Because of HIs great name, because they were His people, He had to discipline. But that is not what He wanted and it’s really not what He deserved. He is worthy of honor, not just with our lips but with our lives. And He wanted and was able to lead them to wonderful places and provisions if they would only follow. But they find themselves in exile in Babylon, but God will even free them from that. I just love the hope of a better tomorrow that is constantly referred to in the prophets, even in the context of words of discipline and correction. That’s God’s mercy, grace and love given to His people. Thank God that our faith in Jesus gives us the right to be called children of God!

  3. The first thing I see in this chapter is how God knows our hearts! God sees past everything into our true motivations, our inner most thoughts. We can put on any show we want for man but God sees past it.
    The second thing is that He still shows us mercy! Knowing our hearts and how undeserving we are He still shows mercy to His people. Yes he will allow the fire to refine us and clean us from our unrighteousness and help shape us to be more in His image but always for the ultimate glory of God.

  4. Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
    Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
    Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
    And my carved image and my molded image
    Have commanded them.’

    One thing that really stuck out to me in this chapter was God as a creator who speaks. He is making declarations and asking questions. He is repeatedly asking them “Do you hear?”

    Do we hear?

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