Dear Father in heaven, it is my pleasure to worship and bow down to You this morning. I pray in the name of Jesus and ask for forgiveness for my every sin, so I can be reconciled with You, through Your Son, Jesus Christ.
As I noted on another day, Your prophets of the Old Testament, write with experience of Your ongoing profound merciful love toward erring, sinful children. Because You are everlasting and eternal, You are the same with each of us today. The Israelite people turned themselves away from practicing the right living and worship; You had outlined, and did as the wicked people around them. This included choosing to worship and bow down to a man-made lifeless, god who could not answer or do any miracles. They then found themselves in bondage and slaves to their supposed deliverers, as well as to the sinful practices of those nations.
After a period of consequential withdrawing of Your care and support, You again endeavoured to bring them back to true deliverance, loving care and forgiveness. Isaiah 52: 3 “For thus says the Lord: ‘You have sold yourselves for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money’”
It is apparent that people have not learned from the past and still think we know better how to live and worship, than You our God. We of today, still go off and get ourselves tied up with Godless people, and into practices that do us harm and cause us to be slaves to sin, by ‘them and that’. Isaiah 52: 5 “…..’Those who rule over them make them wail,’ says the Lord, ‘my name is blasphemed continually every day.’” Once tied up, it seems mentally too hard to extricate our self and go find or return to God, Who loves the sinner and the righteous alike, without reserve. Again as the longsuffering, merciful God, revealed (Isaiah 52:7) God as the answer to their dire situation, proclaimed ‘Good news’, there is peace and salvation, ‘Your God reigns’.
In all our dire situations, the same ‘Good news’ applies “Your God reigns’, and today we have the reality of the life lived in answer to the promise of Jesus, Your Son, Who would come and set all the captives of sin free. All events came about as had been predicted, for example, Isaiah 52: 10 “The Lord has made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.”
Your good news of salvation, through Jesus, has gone to most nations and peoples. Father I pray, that many more, will hear and accept Your ‘Good news’ and choose to accept You and salvation through Jesus for free.