MEDITATIONS FROM ISAIAH

 

April 19, 2006

Reading: Isaiah 44:24-28

 

“Who says to the deep, 'Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers' Isa 44:27.

 

Never forget, my soul, that your God is the God of yesterday, today and tomorrow. “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore” Rev 1:18. When the present finds you enduring trials that seem insurmountable the scriptures encourage you to look back into the past and remember the things God has done for you. Remember the valleys He has brought you out of and victories He has given you. In the text God reminds His people that it was He who dried up the Red Sea to deliver them from their enemy and the Jordan River to provide the way into the land of promise.

I am the Lord, your Redeemer, I am the same One who has been with you from the beginning, even from the womb. I am your Lord who has kept His promises and delivered you out of the hands of your enemies. Remember and believe, trust Me now for I will deliver you now as I did in the past. “I am with you always, even to the end of the age,” “I will never leave you nor forsake you,” I am the same yesterday, today and forever.

I will be your comfort, strength and joy—you trusted me then, trust Me now.

 

“O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, and from the heights of Hermon, from the Hill Mizar. Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and billows have gone over me. The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me” Ps 42:6-8.

 

“Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the LORD! Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face evermore! Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth” 1 Chron 16:10-12.