- This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? Isaiah 14:26-27 – Here the purpose scripture was speaking of was the destruction of the nations that tore town God’s people. Nothing and no one was going to be able to stop God from accomplishing what He has set in motion. We must realize that the God that exists in our story, the one we pray to and have placed our faith in, is the same unstoppable God being spoken about here in Isaiah. What God has purposed, nothing can stop it. What’s He purposed then? That the whole world will one day bend a knee to Him and every tongue confess to God. All powers, all authorities, and every one of us will someday realize the ultimate power God has and nothing and no one can stop this from happening. God desires then you to be lent wholly to Him. Let’s step into today what will be the reality of our lives for eternity. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1215
- For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. Isaiah 14:1 – We’ve all been there before, where we visit a new restaurant and pick something out on the menu to have for dinner. Yet after you take your first few bites, you come to your conclusion, you’d never choose that option on the menu again. Maybe it was the taste, the texture, or something else, but while you did choose it once, you’d never choose it again. That way of thinking can sometimes find itself in the way we believe God feels about us. That while yes, He did choose us, if though He had the option to choose again, He wouldn’t choose us a second time. Because of our sin and because of our unfaithfulness, we’ve made ourselves a bad choice on the menu. Hear though what this passage is saying about God’s people even after they turned away from Him. He will again choose them. God chose us to begin with, but He would choose us again and again and again. Our sin doesn’t sway His passion for us, and our unfaithfulness doesn’t trash His desire for us. Our sin and unfaithfulness are certainly not pleasing to the Lord and are things He longs to be far from our life, but they don’t altar that way God desires a life with us. For while we were still sinners, still enemies of God, God sent Jesus to die on the cross and pave a way for us to have eternal life with the Father. Know today, God still chooses you. Even if yesterday, this past week, or even this past ten years has been full of rebellion towards the Lord, He still loves you and still desires your heart. The question then isn’t if God is saying yes to you, its will you say yes to Him? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2681
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