MEDITATIONS FROM ISAIAH

 

March 8, 2006

Reading: Isaiah 33:20-24

 

“For the LORD is our Judge, The LORD is our Lawgiver, The LORD is our King; He will save us” Isa 33:22 (part 2).

 

Continue, my soul, with your contemplations on this magnificent verse of God’s Holy Word. To conclude your thoughts with your Jesus as Judge and the righteousness of His judgment toward you would, indeed, fall willfully short of the glorious message the Holy Spirit seeks to reveal to you in these words.

While your Savior is Judge and Lawgiver, He is also your King. One of the privileges of the King was to grant mercy to His citizens. Royalty are still the final authority of mercy where kings and queens are recognized as the Sovereign of the country. In the United States this authority is in the hands of the elected official whether it is the Governor of the State or the President of the country.

You are judged to be a sinner and righteously condemned to hell, but, praise God, your Savior is also your Sovereign. As Sovereign, He exercises His authority to all members of His kingdom and declares them protected by His mercy.

Did not David, a man after God’s own heart, show mercy to the grandson of him who tried to kill him? His mercy made it possible for it to be said of Mephibosheth that he “dwelt in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the king's table.” How much greater is the mercy of your King:

 

“I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore. For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol” Ps 86:12-13.

 

God’s judgment is declared in righteousness and His laws established in wisdom. God’s sovereignty is exercised by Divine right and His mercy endures for ever.

“Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness” Lam 3:22-23

 

“’I will call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.’ And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘ You are not My people,' there they shall be called sons of the living God." Rom 9:18.

 

“For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us” Ps 103:11-12.

 

“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; And to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” Isa 55:7.