Isaiah 54

March 21, 2022

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

Isaiah 54 (NIV)

The Future Glory of Zion
1“Sing, barren woman,
you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband,”
says the Lord.
2“Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
strengthen your stakes............Continue Reading

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  1. This chapter is a reminder that God meets not only our physical needs but our emotional needs as well. When we allow Him to, God stands in the gaps for the needs we have that are not met by people or when people let us down. The picture of Him standing in as a husband to the widow resonates so strongly with me! God was always a father to me in the absence of a strong earthly father. Rather than feeling unfulfilled in that area I would cling to the promise of God as my perfect Father and that always brought me such comfort and this chapter reinforced that for me.

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  2. What a promise to Israel. God separated himself from his people for a time because of sin. This chapter reminds me of the prodigal son. All the promises God makes to them now. With his love and protection. Do our best not to sin so that Our lord will always be with us. And not opening doors to the enemy

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  3. I love this chapter. So many promises on God looking out on my well-being – on a very intimate level. The verse about my maker being my husband has always spoken volumes to me – even now that I am married.

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  6. What a powerful and endearing chapter this is. To hear God speak so intimately to His people and identify with His people’s suffering and yet identify and accept His part in it while pointing to His restoration, is incredible. I love that He compares it to the time of Noah when God’s wrath was expressed on mankind because of their evil, but once dealt with, God made a covenant not to destroy the earth with water again. But God uses the reference to reenforce how He is in that place of forgiveness and restoration. And no one turns a situation around with such compassion, authority and provisions as God does. Isaiah 54:10+17 are powerful and directly relates to the people of Israel in this context, but there are also transferable principles to all God’s people of all time.

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  7. God will keep His covenant and restore all.

    “For a mere moment I have forsaken you,
    But with great mercies I will gather you.
    With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
    But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
    Says the Lord, your Redeemer.”

    The perspective of their suffering and chastisement as a fleeting moment reminds me that despite any suffering, whether for my own sin and stupidity or for the gospel, is fleeting in comparison to the eternity that we will spend with God.

    It makes me think of Romans 8 where we are told that we will share in Christ’s sufferings, but it cannot be compared to the glory that will be revealed.

    “The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
    I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.” – Romans 8:16-20

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  8. I read it again, chapter 53, so powerful of a chapter for me, it’s like, “ how can anything else in this Bible come close this one in impacting my life.”

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