- You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. Isaiah 62:4 – Scripture is speaking of the coming rescue and salvation of God’s people. What’s beautiful is how God chooses to word all this. He speaks multiple times of renaming His people. Where he strips off the old labels of forsaken and desolate and renames them His delight and married. We see elsewhere in scripture God stripping away old labels and replacing them with new ones. Like the old has passed away and we are a new creation, or we are not longer orphans but heirs. The labels we choose to listen to will impact greatly how we relate with God. Understand as a Christian, you’ve been given labels like loved, forgiven, child, and masterpiece. If how you see yourself doesn’t line up with the names God has spoken over you, then maybe you’re living under the wrong labels. Uncover the labels God has placed on you within scripture and seek to accept and live by them. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1263
- The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give. Isaiah 62:2 – The Lord is looking over His people and seeing their unrighteous pursuit of sin, and He also sees the future captivity and exile that’s to come for His people because of such sin. God though speaks of His promises beyond their sin and beyond their exile. God says He will restore, and in such restoring, God will begin to call them by a new name. In our chapter we get multiple new names that His people would get to carry as a result of His saving. Instead of forsaken and desolate, they would be called “My Delight Is In Her” and “Married.” At the end of the chapter we see a few more names: The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord, Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken. For a nation in exile by an enemy nation, how precious would such truths be. “You’re not forsaken, I have sought you out and my delight is in you! I will make you my holy people and call you as my own.” This promise is carried over to all believers today for we see in passages through the New Testament on how God does the same “renaming” for us. We too are called holy and loved heirs with Christ, adopted into the family of God. If then the enemy has you believing his names for you like unqualified, worthless, and unlovable, then listen closely to the Father instead and hear the names He has for you. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2729
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