Honoring God
David Honors God
Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5)
A Heart Filled with Gratitude
Isaiah 45:20-25 New International Version
20 “Gather together and come;
assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood,
who pray to gods that cannot save.
21 Declare what is to be, present it—
let them take counsel together.
Who foretold this long ago,
who declared it from the distant past?
Was it not I, the Lord?
And there is no God apart from me,
a righteous God and a Savior;
there is none but me.
22 “Turn to me and be saved,
all you ends of the earth;
for I am God, and there is no other.
23 By myself I have sworn,
my mouth has uttered in all integrity
a word that will not be revoked:
Before me every knee will bow;
by me, every tongue will swear.
24 They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
are deliverance and strength.’”
All who have raged against him
will come to him and be put to shame.
25 But all the descendants of Israel
will find deliverance in the Lord
and will make their boast in him.
For Reflection
More and more these days, I feel like a fugitive. Perhaps the world now is not that much different from the one in which I grew up in the 1950"s. Maybe it's just that now I am facing my last years and my values and expectations have matured.
I am not fearful like some. I have little interest in legislating the world into a theocracy. (Considering Judges and Kings, it didn't seem to work all that well for Israelites.) As God's confederate, I am not required to change the world all by myself. My only desire is that I have been a witness to the Grace of God and that my persona (as inconsistent as it has been from time to time) has influenced others to be kind, just, and patient -- that I have been a good steward of my gifts and God's faith in me.
I am confident in the realization of God's Kingdom. These passages give me hope.
Pray
Pray so that you become a vessel for God's divine intention for humankind and this world. Pray and let God direct you and help you develop extreme confidence in God.
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