Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Isaiah 29 Devotions by Stephen Taylor

Isaiah 29:16

You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “you did not make me?” Can the pot say to the potter, “ you know nothing”?   


Why would I, someone who can barely walk and chew gum at the same time, want to be in control over the Creator of the universe, the one who controls everything from beginning to end and doesn’t break a sweat doing it? Why am I so proud to think I can do better than the one who Created me and everything around me? I can’t!!

 

It’s good to pray for things, to bring them before God, but the part where it starts to be wrong is when I try to tell Him how to do it! I want the control, but I NEED Him to have it!! No subject tells his king how to run His kingdom! Just because our King stepped off His throne to save us doesn’t give us the right to tell Him how to do his job!! We are blessed to be there in His kingdom, so let’s give Him the glory!!! 

 

I love you all and God bless!! Glory to the Risen King!

 

 

Isaiah 29:22

Therefore this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will their faces grow pale.”

It can be easy for us to forget that outside of Christ, the people of the Bible are just people. Yes, they may have had great faith or even been witnesses to great signs and wonders, but at the end of the day, they are still people who needed to be redeemed like you and me. Be encouraged! The same God who called and saved Abraham is the same God calling you today!

God redeemed Abraham in different ways. First, He did it physically from the pagan nation he was a part of. God called him out to take hold of the promise that He had in store for Abraham, in the form of his own land and nation. But He didn’t stop redeeming him there; He redeemed him spiritually as well! Giving him the promise of the seed to come that would bless all nations, Jesus Christ!

Our God is a redeeming God, giving increase where there used to be lack, giving abundance where there used to be drought, and giving a blessing instead of the curse we had earned. This same God is still moving and doing these things today. He does not change, nor will He change His mind about you. If we walk in faith and obedience as Abraham did, then we too can rest in the promises God has for us. I’m sure that Abraham didn’t fully understand the magnitude of what God was doing for him and through him, but he walked in faith and trusted that the God who called him could, in fact, provide everything He promised!

Will we walk in this type of faith today? Our story may not be found in the Bible, but it may be the only Bible some people ever read; how will you tell His story?

Hebrews 11:8-10- By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

God bless! I love you all, but His love has and will be the same forevermore! Glory, honor, and praise to Papa God, Jesus Christ our King, and the Holy Spirit!

 

 

 

 

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