SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 8-10; Hebrews 8
Isaiah 8
A Boulder Blocking Your Way
God spoke strongly to me, grabbed me with both hands and warned me not to go along with this people. He said:“Don’t be like this people,
always afraid somebody is plotting against them.
Don’t fear what they fear.
Don’t take on their worries.
If you’re going to worry,
worry about The Holy. Fear God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
The Holy can be either a Hiding Place
or a Boulder blocking your way,
The Rock standing in the willful way
of both houses of Israel,
A barbed-wire Fence preventing trespass
to the citizens of Jerusalem.
Many of them are going to run into that Rock
and get their bones broken,
Get tangled up in that barbed wire
and not get free of it.”Gather up the testimony,
preserve the teaching for my followers,
While I wait for God as long as he remains in hiding,
while I wait and hope for him.
OBSERVATIONS: God’s manner of working with us has as much to do with saying NO as it does saying YES. The gathering of testimony is the preparation for a time that will be favorable for the sharing of God’s word.
APPLICATION: Joey, prepare your story. Help others to prepare their own story. Practice telling it. Help them to practice it. And remember to keep Christ as the main character in any story of Grace that you tell.
PRAYER: God, you have worked wonders in my life and the lives of those around me. Help me to see your hand at work, and to tell the story of your intervention in the lives of your children. Because of Christ, and for his Name’s sake I pray, Amen.
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