ISAIAH 33:17 – Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar. THEME OF THE DAY. THINK ON THIS GLORIOUS DAY. Nothing changes our understanding of the Christian life and shapes our lives more in line with the Biblical definition of being a Christian than to ponder the day when today’s scripture becomes a…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Isaiah
ISAIAH 55:8-9 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. THEME OF THE DAY. NOT ACCORDING TO OUR PLANS. Today’s scripture is one of those portions easy to give as…
ISAIAH 43:2a – When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you . . . THEME OF THE DAY. HE WON’T LET US DROWN. Life has been, is, and will be like a roller coaster ride at an amusement park. There are going to be highs and lows, peaks and valleys,…
ISAIAH 53:3-11 – He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions;…
ISAIAH 48:9-11 -“For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you, tested you, chosen you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for…
ISAIAH 43:1-2 – But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through…