- The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Isaiah 60:19 – I love the imagery here. Think of all that the light of the sun does for us. It pushes out the darkness, it makes clear the paths we are to go on, and it even brings peace on journeys that would be filled with worry when shadowed in darkness. God here is saying He wants to be that light in our whole life. He was to cast out the darkness. He wants to make our paths clear and remove the worry from them. He also wants be do all this and be all this for all eternity. He doesn’t want to be your light then when you come to a scary part in life leave you in darkness. He wants to walk always with us, helping us see our path and providing the peace we need to take another step. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1261
- Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness. Isaiah 60:17 – This chapter looks to be speaking of a glorious future for Israel, God’s people. After lifetimes of harsh treatments and persecution, God is promising a day that will outshine all the darkness. When His glorious light will not only cast out any darkness, but will draw the world to Israel. In verse 17 we see the Lord touching on the gifts that will be brought to Israel as an offering to be given the Lord. We see how God takes something simple and each times replaces it with something better. You had bronze, now it will be gold. You have iron, silver will be given instead. This was to be just a taste of how good this glorious future would be. Yet one commentary I read on this today notes that while bronze to gold is special, making a slavedriver (taskmaster) righteous is even more of a glorious feat. Those that came against them would bow at their feet. For a nation under such turmoil, whether in Isaiah’s day or our day, what a beautiful promise to have. And a promise that will come in God’s timing. Let us then today choose to live in expectancy that this is the settled future for the world. Let us pray for Israel, let us shine the light of God’s glory in the ways we are called to today, and let us trust that God’s glorious future will make all things right. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2727
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