- …and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago. Isaiah 22:9-11 – Notice that last sentence, you didn’t look to him who did it or planned it long ago. Here we have people when confronted with pain and struggle running to everything else but God and doing everything else but what God wanted them to do. How does that relate to your story right now in the virus season? We’re faced with a struggle none of us have seen before, yet where are you going to seek peace and help from? What are you doing in this time? What brings you pleasure or God? This chapter gives us a firsthand look at what running to anything other than God offers us in our time of need; emptiness, loss of hope, and no help. Take note of all this and in this season we are all in right now be sure to be running to the One who has provided for us since the beginning and has planned your story out since then too. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1223
- In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. Isaiah 22:20-22 – Isaiah is speaking against the leadership in Jerusalem. King Hezekiah was a faithful king, so this prophecy is directed to the unfaithful chief servant of the king, Shebna. While clothed in wealth and security, all that was to be taken away from Shebna due to unfaithfulness to the Lord and given to the faithful to the Lord servant Eliakim instead. As we read on in the chapter we also see the promise that any who followed Shebna, who “hung on the peg” that was Shebna, would also fall with him. As we then walk today, we must be sure to hang on the right peg. In Isaiah’s day, if something in the house was hung on a peg in the wall, it was thought to be safe and secure. What then are you hanging on today that is giving you safety and security? Is it Jesus? Or is it something else within this world? Know that if the “peg” you are hanging on in life is anything but Jesus, like Shebna it be removed and all that was hanging on it will fall with it. Be careful then what you hang your life on today, and know there is a safe peg that is Jesus that will never be removed and can provide safety and security for your life for eternity. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2689
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